Yuschenko's reaction at resignation urge of ex-president Kravchuk was improper, say experts

Kyiv, February 27 (Interfax-Ukraine) – President Viktor Yuschenko's response to the call of Ukraine's first president, Leonid Kravchuk, for him to resign, were improper, according to the political experts.

"I think such statements about 'old politicians' and all the rest don't do the current president's reputation any good: there should be some solidarity among the presidents, whatever positions they have," President of Open Policy Analytical Center Ihor Zhdanov said Friday at Interfax-Ukraine agency during a press conference entitled "Results of the political week as seen by experts."

The political expert said that Kravchuk "is hardly the only person in the country who has the moral right to make such statements".

He said that this statement "will be welcomed by society, as only 2-4% of citizens support the president, but that won't bother Yuschenko himself".

"I think that we'll have regular presidential elections and early parliamentary ones," he said.

Political and Law Programs Director of the Rozumkov Ukrainian Center of Economic and Political Research Yuriy Yakymenko said that Kravchuk's statement "was a measure of psychological pressure on Yuschenko to provoke him to react."

"And they succeeded, because his reaction was improper," he said.