Residence Kiev Term length Four years | Appointer President of Ukraine Inaugural holder Marko Vasylenko | |
Constituting instrument Chapter VI, Article 118 Formation In 1932, as Chairman of Executive Committee | ||
The Governor of Kiev Oblast (Ukrainian: Губернатор Київської області, Hubernator Kyivs’koi oblasti) or officially, the Chairman of the Kiev Oblast State Administration (Ukrainian: Голова Київської обласної державної адміністрації, Holova Kyiv’skoi oblasnoi derzhavnoi administratsii) is the chairman of the executive branch of Kiev Oblast, a province in northern Ukraine. The official residence is located in the country's capital, Kiev. The current Governor is Oleksandr Horhan, who was appointed by President Petro Poroshenko on 28 October 2016.
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Authority
According to Chapter VI of the constitution, the office of governor is appointed by the president, on recommendation from the cabinet of ministers, to serve a four year term of office. The oblast's council can express a motion of no confidence to the governor, after which the Ukrainian president is to issue a "substantiated reply." However, if two-thirds of the oblast council's deputies pass a resolution of no confidence in the governor, the president must adopt a decision on the governor's resignation.
As part of the constitutional reform in Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko proposed abolishing the office of chairmen of the regional state administrations, and instead replace them with the office of the Representative of the President of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Представник Президента України, Predstavnyk Presydenta Ukrainy) which will be appointed in each of Ukraine's 24 oblasts. These representatives will have significantly less authority over the regions in which they serve, instead being appointed to oversee the authority and constitutionality of Ukraine's administrative units.
List of former governors
Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, most of the authority in Kiev Oblast belonged to the Kiev Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. The following is a full list of the leaders of Kiev Oblast from 1932 until the present day.