Governor of Kiev Oblast

Governor of Kiev Oblast
Coat of arms of Kiev Oblast
Incumbent
Oleksandr Horhan[1]
since 28 October 2016[1]
Residence Kiev
Appointer President of Ukraine
Term length Four years
Constituting instrument Chapter VI, Article 118
Inaugural holder Ivan Kapshtyk
Formation In 1992, as Presidential representative
Deputy Dmytro Khrystiuk
Oleh Korban
Website www.kyiv-obl.gov.ua

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,[1] who was appointed by President Petro Poroshenko on 28 October 2016.[1]

In mass media, the office is majorly overshadowed by a head of the Kiev City State Administration.

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."[2] 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.[2]

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.[3][4]

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.[5]


Representative of the President

  • Ivan Kapshtyk (1992–1994)
  • in 1994-1995 the office was liquidated and its duties temporarily transferred to chairman of the regional council executive committee

Heads of the Oblast State Administration

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See also

References

Notes
  1. ↑ Acting to September 17, 2009
Footnotes
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/379831.html
  2. 1 2 Article 118 of the Constitution of Ukraine on the Wikisource.
  3. ↑ "Poroshenko proposes his variant of "decentralization"" (in Ukrainian). Ukrayinska Pravda. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "Constitution of Poroshenko: decentralization and control over the power bloc" (in Ukrainian). BBC Ukrainian. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  5. ↑ Cahoon, Ben. "Kyiv (Kiev)". World Statesmen.org. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  6. 1 2 (in Ukrainian) Maksym Melnychuk Poroshenko appointed Head of Kyiv Regional State Administration Archived 2016-02-04 at the Wayback Machine., hromadske.tv (3 February 2016)
    Poroshenko sees direct elections of regional administration heads as threat to Ukraine's federalization, Interfax-Ukraine (3 February 2016)
  7. ↑ President appoints 14 regional governors Archived 2012-05-23 at the Wayback Machine., Interfax-Ukraine (March 18, 2010)
  8. ↑ http://pda.pravda.com.ua/news/id_7125088/
  • "Main" (in Ukrainian). Kyiv Oblast State Administration. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
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