05 December 2008, 11:40
The Bill (Reg. No.2539) introduces amendments to the effective Law, pursuant to which, persons who were elected to the post of a mayor two times in succession, or whose authorities at the post of a mayor were early terminated, can not be nominated to the post of a mayor.
However, the Committee members stated that according to Article 140 of the Constitution of Ukraine, local self-government was defined as a right of a territorial community to settle the issues of local importance independently within the scope of the Constitution and Ukrainian Laws.
The People´s Deputies stressed that election of a mayor referred to the Constitutional competence of the territorial community of the city. Therefore, territorial communities should have a priority right to settle the issue concerning the tenure of certain persons in the mayorship. Therefore, the introduced motion restricts the rights of territorial community for the settlement of issues that relate to its competence.