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The municipality of the city of Kiev has a unique legal status compared to the other administrative subdivisions of Ukraine. The most significant differences are that the city is subordinated directly to the national-level branches of the Government of Ukraine, skipping the provincial level authorities of Kiev Oblast (province). The leading governmental positions are held by the the locally elected figures (rather than the appointed ones), and the municipal self-governance institutions have a higher than elsewhere in Ukraine latitude in the local affairs.
This unique standing of the city's institution of self-governance reflects the role of Kiev as the capital of Ukraine and is also based on historic reasons inherited from the city's administrative status within the Soviet Union where Kiev held the position of the City of the republican subordination.
Currently, the legal status and the local government of Kiev are regulated by the special provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine as well as a combination of Ukrainian laws, namely the Law on the capital of Ukraine - Hero City Kiev, the Law on the local state administration and the Law on local self-governance in Ukraine.
Legal status as an administrative subdivision of Ukraine
Kiev is a national-level subordinated municipality (officially "the city with special status"), which means that the city is directly subordinated to national-level government rather than to the provincial level authorities of Kiev Oblast, which surrounds the city.
Of only two special status municipalities of national-level subordination in Ukraine (the other being the city of Sevastopol) Kiev's status somewhat differs from the status of Sevastopol as the latter's scope of local government is narrower.
Local government
The popularly elected Kiev City Council is the city-level legislative body of Kiev, with a broad scope of jurisdiction over the local issues. The council is chaired by the Mayor of Kiev, who is independently elected by a separate popular election.
Local representation of the central govenrment of Ukraine
The President of Ukraine appoints the Head of the City State Administration. Unlike other similar appointments in Ukraine, this appointment is purely formal, because the Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruled that the elected city Mayor is to be also appointed as the Head of the City State Administration. This provision is unique, as other similar appointments of the local administration leaders throughout Ukraine are made by the agreement of the President and the Prime Minister. Currently, both positions are held by Leonid Chernovetskyi (elected in March of 2006.)
See also
References
- The Law of Ukraine "On the Capital of Ukraine — Hero City Kiev" dated January 15, 1999 Template:Uk icon
- Annotation to the Law Template:En icon
- Interpretation of certain terms in the Law by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Template:Uk icon
- The Law of Ukraine on the Local State Administration last amended December 21, 2006 Template:Uk icon
- The Law of Ukraine on the Local Self-Governance in Ukraine, last amended Decemper 19, 2006 Template:Uk icon
- Decision of the Constitutional Court on 25/12/2003
- Official interpretation regarding the peculiarities of local government in raions of Kiev Template:Uk icon