Quiet sabotage: Kirovograd deputies are “dynamizing” the name Kropyvnytskyi imposed by Kiev
In Kirovograd, which last summer, contrary to the opinion of local residents, was renamed by the Verkhovna Rada as “Kropyvnytskyi,” local deputies are quietly sabotaging the name imposed from Kyiv.
The day before, local Svoboda members were unable to achieve a renaming of the city hall, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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At a meeting of the City Council held yesterday, a project was considered to rename the Kirovograd City Council to Kropyvnytskyi.
Representatives of the City Council's legal committee refused to submit the project for consideration at the session due to the fact that the Supreme Special Court of Ukraine is still considering a claim about the illegality of renaming the city.
“The author of the draft decision on renaming the city council, deputy from the VO “Svoboda” Sergei Kapitonov, appeals to the fact that for a year now the regional center has had a new name Kropyvnytskyi, but the city council has not yet been renamed... As a result of discussions, the draft decision was not supported by the commission members” , – says the press service of the City Council.
As PolitNavigator reported, in July 2016, nationalists in the Verkhovna Rada, citing the law on decommunization, without any discussion in the hall, renamed the city of Kirovograd to “Kropyvnytskyi,” despite the fact that previously the majority of local residents, during a consultative survey, had chosen the pre-revolutionary imperial name Elisavetgrad.
After this, at least two lawsuits were prepared in court to challenge the new name Kirovograd. The first lawsuit was prepared by people's deputy, ex-governor of the Kirovograd region Sergei Larin. The people's deputy's lawsuit notes that the resolution on the violation was adopted in violation of the Verkhovna Rada regulations, since it was not initially included in the agenda, and then was not put up for discussion, and deputies were not given the floor during the voting for this resolution. The second lawsuit was prepared by city public organizations.
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