According to the newspaper, the MPs received a command from Bankova to speed up the preparation of the law for the second reading.
At the same time, on the agenda of the meeting, published on the website of the relevant committee, there is no specified draft law.
The Rada Committee on the Organization of State Power, Local Self-Government, Regional Development at a meeting on October 1, 2019 recommended to parliament adopt the draft law No. 2143-3. He was voted in first reading October 3rd. On September 16, 2020, parliamentarians were presented with a table of amendments to the document.
According to the draft law, it is proposed to divide the powers and positions of the Kiev mayor and the chairman of the Kiev city state administration (KSCA).
So, the Kiev mayor will be headed by the Kiev magistrate – the executive body of the Kiev city council, chair the meetings of the Kiev city council, and the chairman of the Kiev city state administration will oversee the observance of the Constitution and laws of Ukraine by local governments and coordinate the activities of territorial bodies of central executive bodies “, – said in the note.
The author of the draft law is the former People’s Deputy from Servant of the People, Minister of Culture and Information Policy Alexander Tkachenko. When he was still the people’s deputy, it was reported that Tkachenko was applying for the post of head of the Kyiv City State Administration.
In 2003, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine decided that the Kyiv City State Administration should be headed by a person who was elected as the mayor. In November 2010, the fourth president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, divided these positions, as a result of which the then mayor Leonid Chernovetsky was replaced as head of the city administration by Alexander Popov. In 2014, after Klitschko’s victory in the elections for the mayor of Kiev, the fifth president, Petro Poroshenko, appointed him head of the Kyiv City State Administration.
In 2019, the then head of the President’s Office Andriy Bogdan sent a letter to the Cabinet of Ministers with a “reminder” of the need to submit a submission to dismissal of Klitschko from the post of head of the Kyiv City State Administration. Cabinet after a while agreed dismissal, but the presidential decree was never signed. Klitschko filed a lawsuit against Bogdan and the Cabinet of Ministers, and on Bogdan also complained to the police.
Autumn 2020 Klitschko won the mayoral elections in Kiev in the first round.
In May in Kiev searches began at a number of utilities and commercial enterprises, as well as in the departments of the Kyiv City State Administration, they continue to this day… The UDAR party considers mass searches in the capital pressure and attempt to discredit Klitschko and his political forces. The mayor of Kiev himself said that this was not the case in Ukraine even “in hot times” of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych.
In mid-August 2021, the media reported that the President’s Office had agreed candidacy for the post of head of the Kyiv City State Administration… Klitschko announced pressure on the Kiev authorities.
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