Mayor of Lviv, leader of the Samopomich Party Andriy Sadovy says he won’t run for a new term, as he wants to work for the entire country.
“My term is coming to an end, this is already a third term, (I’ve been working) as mayor for 13 years. I would really like to see younger, wiser, more talented, more successful people come after me, and I will support them as much as possible,” he said on TV channel ZIK on Wednesday evening.
At the same time, Sadovy expressed the conviction that his “task today is to work at the national level, because this is the only way I can help Lviv, and Odesa, and Kharkov, and Mykolaiv.”
He said that now up to 80% of cities are under the influence of criminals. “I see how the criminals want to get promoted in Lviv – I will not allow this,” Sadovy said.
“My big goal is to build a country where I want to live. We have a unique example of Lviv, which is being attacked, but this is an example of public administration,” the mayor added.
Sadovy has been a Ukrainian public and political figure, Mayor of Lviv since April 25, 2006. He is the leader of Samopomich. He put forward his candidacy for the presidency of Ukraine in the March 31, 2019 elections, but on March 1, he announced withdrawal in favor of leader of the Civic Position Party Anatoliy Hrytsenko.
On March 4, Sadovy submitted an application for withdrawing his candidacy from the presidential elections and on March 5, the CEC canceled his registration as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine.
