Kyiv Oblast State Administration

The Governor of Kyiv Oblast (Ukrainian: Губернатор Київської області, Hubernator Kyivs’koi oblasti) or officially, the Chairman of the Kyiv Oblast State Administration (Ukrainian: Голова Київської обласної державної адміністрації, Holova Kyiv’skoi oblasnoi derzhavnoi administratsii) is the chairman of the executive branch of Kyiv Oblast, a province in northern Ukraine. The official residence is located in the country's capital, Kyiv.

Governor of Kyiv Oblast
Coat of arms of Kyiv Oblast
Incumbent
Vasyl Volodin
since 18 June 2020[1]
ResidenceKyiv
AppointerPresident of Ukraine
Term lengthFour years
Constituting instrumentChapter VI, Article 118
Inaugural holderIvan Kapshtyk
FormationIn 1992, as Presidential representative
Websitekoda.gov.ua

The current acting Governor is Vasyl Volodin, who was on 11 March 2020 temporarily assigned by President Volodymyr Zelensky[2] and appointed as Governor on 18 June 2020.[1]

In mass media, the office is majorly overshadowed by a head of the Kyiv 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."[3] 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.[3]

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.[4][5]

List of governors

Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, most of the authority in Kyiv Oblast belonged to the Kyiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. The following is a full list of the leaders of Kyiv Oblast from 1932 until the present day.[6]

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

Notes
  1. Acting to September 17, 2009
  2. On 11 March 2020 appointed as acting Governor[2]

See also

References
  1. (in Ukrainian) Zelensky gave the Kyiv region a leader, Ukrayinska Pravda (18 June 2020)
  2. Cabinet Approves Appointment Of Volodin As Kyiv Governor, Ukranews (27 May 2020)
  3. Article 118 of the Constitution of Ukraine on the Wikisource.
  4. "Poroshenko proposes his variant of "decentralization"" (in Ukrainian). Ukrayinska Pravda. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  5. "Constitution of Poroshenko: decentralization and control over the power bloc" (in Ukrainian). BBC Ukrainian. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  6. Cahoon, Ben. "Kyiv (Kyiv)". World Statesmen.org. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  7. (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)
  8. President appoints 14 regional governors Archived 2012-05-23 at the Wayback Machine, Interfax-Ukraine (March 18, 2010)
  9. http://pda.pravda.com.ua/news/id_7125088/
  10. Poroshenko appoints Horhan as head of Kyiv Regional State Administration, Interfax-Ukraine (28 October 2016)
  11. "Президент призначив нового голову Київської обласної державної адміністрації". Офіційне інтернет-представництво Президента України (in Ukrainian). 2019-07-10. Archived from the original on 2019-07-10. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  12. Zelensky in Boryspil introduces new head of Kyiv Regional Administration Mykhailo Bno-Airiian
  13. https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/2891814-ukraines-new-cabinet-of-ministers.html
  • "Main" (in Ukrainian). Kyiv Oblast State Administration. Archived from the original on 16 May 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
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