Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – December 27, 2020 – Policy
In the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, a group of people’s deputies registered a draft law on amendments to some laws of Ukraine on the development of the institute of elders №4535.
According to one of the authors of the project, MP Vitaly Bezgin, this is a technical but necessary bill. He predicts that the elder is no longer included in the executive committee for the post, but have a broad set of powers – in particular, can act guaranteed the executive committee at meetings of council, other bodies created by the community council, says decentralization.
Also, according to the bill, the head of the community will be obliged to discuss with the community all the candidates for the position of mayor, ie public consultations will be mandatory.
There will be no huge or very small eldership districts in the communities. The criterion for the population of the Starostinsky district is 1,500 people, which corresponds to the smallest community. At the same time, “the bill gives the right to make exceptions to this provision (for mountains or areas with low population density, for example), so communities may form smaller districts, but they will not be able to make them too large,” said Vitaly Bezgin.
The bill also specifies the “representative” mandate of the mayor and clearly states that he can not combine his activities with another position – to be a deputy of district, regional councils, to have other paid work and so on.
Vitaliy Bezgin thanked the representatives of the Ministry of Regional Development Vyacheslav Negoda and Serhiy Sharshov for their active position and initiation in the development of the bill.
The bill, of course, will not have retroactive effect, so it will not apply to the appointment of elders, which has already taken place, or will take place before the proposed changes take effect.
Elders are appointed by the community council on the proposal of the head of the community, and now the opinion of villagers is not taken into account in this matter, because councils and community heads are not obliged by law to do so. In addition, the current legislation does not contain norms that would allow the councils of newly formed communities to form eldership districts. Norms on the possibility of combining the position of elder with other activities also need to be specified.
