Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has said that the elections of Kyiv mayor could be held in 2015.
"I issued a commission to the committee on state building and local management of Oleksandr Omelchenko. I far as I know, they have discussed this issue, and on Wednesday will consider it at a meeting. There are a few differences of opinion: [whether to hold the election in] May or on June 3, when [current mayor Leonid Chernovetsky] took up his duties," Lytvyn said at the conciliation council at the parliament on Monday, answering a request from the leader of Our Ukraine-People’s Self Defense Party faction Mykola Martynenko for the Verkhovna Rada to set the date of the election for Kyiv’s mayor.
"The question is when to hold these elections? Probably, the committee will propose to set the date to hold these elections in 2015. After 2015 we would have a common system of nationwide elections for local governments," he said.
At the same time the parliamentary speaker added that this issue has to be discussed, since two territorial units, Kyiv city and Ternopil region, held local government elections separately from the rest of the country.
Lytvyn noted that when the Verkhovna Rada adopted amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine, it was determined that the term of the powers of the governmental bodies elected at early elections would continue until the date of the next regular elections.
