Volodymyr Lytvyn, Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, calls for drafting a coherent bill to regulate relations in the local self-government.
Volodymyr Lytvyn, Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, made this statement at the International Conference "Local Self-Government Reform: Domestic and International Experience" in Vinnytsia. He informed that 207 Laws are regulating activity of the local self-government bodies.
However, he regretted that a coherent bill regulating relations in the local self-government has not been submitted to the Parliament so far. V.Lytvyn admitted that several newly-adopted Laws make the authorities of the local power ‘indistinct´, reducing the role of self-government. The Head of the Parliament attributes this fact to the ‘political wars´ in Ukraine, deficiencies of the election system, and non-implementation of the European Charter of Local Self-Government.
V.Lytvyn believes that the local self-government reform should be connected with the reforms of the administrative-territorial order and organization of local executive power. "There should be a conceptual vision of reforms and a political will," the Head of the Parliament stressed.