The faction " Samopomich ", member of the parliamentary coalition, proposes to give a right of supervision over legality of actions of local authorities, representatives of the Cabinet, instead of the prefects, and the Prime Minister - the right to initiate termination of the powers of the authorities in case of violation of the Constitution.

"Self-help" has developed an alternative made by the President the draft changes to the Constitution of Ukraine in the part of decentralization. He also foresees the implementation of the administrative-territorial reform and the transfer of the place of those powers which are not within the competence of public authorities. It has also been the project of change provides that " the Central government at the local level represent state officials, subordinate to the Cabinet of Ministers ". While the President's version of the bill that right is given to the prefects, who are appointed by the head of the country.

"They (officials from the Cabinet - ed.) supervise the legality of acts of bodies of local self-government and coordination between territorial bodies of Central Executive authorities ", - informs the press service of the party "Self-help" on the last working day of the week.

in addition, the initiators of the document propose to give to the Prime Minister, not the President, the right to initiate termination of the powers of local governments." The government will oversee the legality of decisions of bodies of local self-government as follows: government officials will be empowered to challenge decisions of local governments in court, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine upon submission of the Prime Minister will be authorized to terminate the range of capabilities of local governments, if They violated the Constitution of Ukraine ", - commented in the party.

the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko last week introduced Rada the project of changes to the Constitution to decentralize power. The proposed changes include a three-tier system of local government. It is planned that the system of administrative-territorial unit will consist of regions, districts and communities (a community may contain one or several settlements of the communities). Exactly communities are encouraged to give the greatest range of opportunities and financial resources. The current version of the Constitution provides for the division into regions, districts, cities, towns, and villages. In the case of the adoption of these changes in Ukraine will also be introduced the institution of the prefect, which would replace the current governors.

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