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Ukrainian President: Decentralized political system will make us closer to Europe
16.07.2015 16:11 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of today, the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko took part in the session of the Verkhovna Rada where his proposed bill to amend the Constitution to decentralize power was considered, President Petro Poroshenko Press Office reports.
As to the report, the Parliament supported sending the bill to the Constitutional Court for review by 288 votes.
Reportedly, while addressing the MPs to support the bill, the Head of State said that he was only an authorised delegate and that the bill was actually prepared by two honourable commissions, namely the Ukrainian Constitutional Commission and the European Venice Commission that approved the great work done in Kyiv.
As to the report, Poroshenko
stressed that the amendments would not influence the allocation of authority between the Verkhovna Rada, the Government, and the President, and would only apply to relations between the central and local government.
«We transfer the authority to the community level but not that of regions or, God forbid, some sort republics. It is the community of a city, town, village or their association is the primary, basic, and main unit of the administrative and territorial system of Ukraine,» the President said.
«The concept of the Heads of the State Administrations shall be eliminated and daily management of oblasts and districts shall be transferred to the Oblast and District Executive Committees. Such Executive Committees shall be established by the local Councils elected by the community,» the Head of State said.
«I urge politicians not to incite society with empty chatter but learn democracy and absorb the art of compromise,» the President said.
As to the report, Poroshenko emphasized that the Venice Commission recognized the proposed model as consistent with the European Charter of Local Self-Government. «Decentralization will bring our political system to the European,» he said.
«Decentralized political system will make us closer to Europe,» he said.
Reportedly, the Head of State also urged the Constitutional Commission to listen to the leaders of the Crimean Tatar people and provide for a provision that, as integral part of Ukraine, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is a national territorial subdivision through which the Crimean Tatar people exercises its right to self-determination.
It is to be admitted, the President also expects the Commission to amend the Constitution in terms of the rotten judicial system reform.
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