Appointer Popular vote Inaugural holder Leonid Kosakivsky Website kmr.gov.ua | Term length 4 years Formation 1994 | |
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Mayor of Kiev (Ukrainian: Київський міський голова, Kyivskyi miskyi holova; literally Head of the Kiev City) is an elected by popular vote head of the Kiev city (the capital of Ukraine) and chairperson the Kiev City Council. It should not be confused with the chairperson of the Kiev city administration.
Contents
- Elections of the mayor of Kiev
- Decrees in power from October 2010 till June 2014
- Head of the Kiev City
- Chairperson the Kiev City Council 1990 1994
- Previous leaders of Kiev
- References
The mayor is elected for the term of four years. Current mayor Vitali Klitschko was sworn in on 5 June 2014. Klitschko had won the 25 May 2014 Kiev mayoral elections with almost 57% of the votes.
Elections of the mayor of Kiev
According to the Kiev City Electoral Commission, Chernovetsky won in 2006 31.83% of the popular vote, Vitali Klitschko placed second with 23.7%, and incumbent Oleksandr Omelchenko placed third with 21.2%.
As of December 2006, the rating of Chernovetsky decreased to 8%. That is mostly due to his betrayal of those who elected him, most notably through his increasing of the price of household services (such as hot and cold running water and gas) by 340%.
Leonid Chernovetskyi won another term as Mayor of Kiev with 38% of the vote in the May 25, 2008 snap local election, called on by the Verkhovna Rada in March. Since the resignation of Chernovetsky in July 2012, the Kiev City Council Secretary and Deputy Mayor Halyna Hereha was the acting Mayor of Kiev.
In the 2014 Kiev local election Vitali Klitschko won the election for mayor of Kiev with almost 57% of the votes. Klitschko was sworn in as mayor on 5 June 2014.
The last Kiev local election (including Mayoral elections) took place on 25 October 2015. A second round of Mayoral elections will be held on 15 November 2015 between Klitschko and Boryslav Bereza after incumbent Mayor Klitschko scored 40.5% of the vote and Bereza 8.8% in the first round.
Decrees in power from October 2010 till June 2014
An October 2010 Presidential decree relieved (then) mayor of Kiev Leonid Chernovetsky of the office of Head of Kiev City Administration, while still preserving the post of mayor. This led to Chernovetsky being deprived of any official decision-making role and most power in the capital was handed over to the Head of Kiev City Administration. At that time that was Oleksandr Popov who was appointed by President Viktor Yanukovych on 16 November 2010. Before these amendments, the elected mayor of the Kiev City Council was automatically appointed also as head of the Kiev City City Administration.
Chernovetsky was not seen in Kiev for several months after Popov's appointment. But returned to the public eye early 2011. Among the city residents of Kiev, Chernovetskyi had become extremely unpopular.
Chernovetsky tendered his resignation on 1 June 2012. The City Council decided on 12 July 2012 that Halyna Hereha would temporarily act as the mayor of the capital city. A petition to the Ukrainian Parliament on holding an early mayoral election in the city was sent (the date of the early mayoral election is set by this parliament). But as of January 2013 the Ukrainian Parliament has set no date for these elections.
But since 25 June 2014 the post of mayor of Kiev and Head of Kiev City Administration are held by the same person again. This person is Vitali Klitschko who was sworn in as mayor on 5 June 2014 and who was appointed Head of Kiev City Administration by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on 25 June 2014.