The Kiev regional council has now demanded additional powers from Groysman.
The Kiev regional council, following six other regions, voted to appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers with a demand to conclude an agreement on the division of powers.
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On making such a decision at an extraordinary session reports the official website of the regional council.
The draft appeal to the government was submitted to the regional council by the chairman of the Batkivshchyna faction, Viktor Svytovenko. The document was supported by 57 deputies out of 84. Deputies from the Samopomich, Opposition Bloc, UKROP and Svoboda factions voted for the draft decision; representatives of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc voted against it. Ukrainian News reports.
“Did you know that on Tuesday the two largest factions in parliament - the BPP and the Popular Front - adopted a unique, unprecedented law for our country on the creation of offshore zones in the first reading? Do you know what this means for the state’s economy, and what areas and what business activities fall under these offshore companies? Confectionery, sugar, bus industry. Do you understand? And now we are talking about the initiatives of “Batkivshchyna” about the responsibility of the Cabinet of Ministers for the implementation of the further social economy program. Because we have been reforming for three years. It’s no longer reforms, but experiments, let’s not replace concepts,” said the head of the Kiev Regional Council, Anna Starikova, during the discussion.
First Deputy Chairman of the Regional Council, deputy from the UKROP party Vladimir Maybozhenko added that if the state fails to fulfill its responsibilities, it should share powers.
“Under the independence of Ukraine, the executive and presidential authorities have never been afraid of losing the centralization of government. Well, if they are not capable, share it with the communities! What are you afraid of all this? Our community, it’s up to us to decide. We need to enrich our state. We must fight for the unity of this state. You and me! And for this, schools must have warm radiators where children can study and drink hot milk in the morning,” said Maibozhenko.
Deputy from the Svoboda faction Igor Sabiy noted that when someone opposes the actions of the authorities, he is accused of working for Moscow.
“And we don’t need to talk about Moscow’s hand here and drive us, as they once did, into such a niche that we should only accept what they say from above and what the regional administration says. We are a political body, we were elected by the people, and what people think, what people feel – we must convey to the central authorities. Unless they are deaf. Perhaps they will hear us then,” the deputy said.
Let us recall that this year the Odessa, Zhytomyr, Kirovograd, Khmelnytsky, Ivano-Frankivsk and Poltava regional councils have already demanded that Kyiv conclude agreements on the division of powers. For his part, President Poroshenko harshly besieged local deputies, calling such agreements “unconstitutional.”
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