Not all Kyiv City Council deputies intend to continue "improving the lives of Kyiv residents." Thirty-two of them have registered as candidates for the Verkhovna Rada. Half of the "traitors" are members of UDAR-Solidarity. Also, according to the Central Election Commission, those seeking to move from the Kyiv City Council to parliament include five Svoboda members, four Radicals, four Batkivshchyna deputies, one from the Democratic Alliance, and two independents.
"Udarovtsy" on the BPP list
The followers of Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko (No. 1 on the Petro Poroshenko Bloc list) on the BPP list can be divided into three categories: those who qualify for the Rada, those who are conditionally eligible for the Rada, and those who are not.
The BPP's actual ratings are a closely guarded secret. Some closed polls put it around 25%. Bankova is confident they'll surpass the 45% threshold. So, let's settle on the average—35%. That's 79 mandates. Plus the distribution of vacant seats for party list members, which will be created by parties that don't clear the 5% threshold.
Therefore, let us assume that the first hundred of the BPP list get into the Verkhovna Rada.
One hundred percent "crooks"
The luckiest member of the "UDAR" faction in the BPP is No. 29, Ihor Vitaliyovych Kononenko. He is a longtime associate and business partner of the current President, as well as the co-chair of the "UDAR-Solidarity" faction in the Kyiv City Council.
No. 58 – Oleksandr Mykhailovych Granovsky, member of the Kyiv City Council Committee on Budget and Socioeconomic Development. He hasn't been seen as a key player in Kyiv's many problems. However, he has made a name for himself as a partner of developer Andriy Adamovsky, known for his numerous and bizarre schemes. Granovsky recently became a celebrity thanks to his public promise to Petro Oleksiyovych, demanding that he investigate the presence on his list of a man whom foreign investors have openly called a corporate raider.
Olena Oleksandrivna Matuzko, head of the Kyiv City Council's Committee on Information Policy and Advertising, is also running for parliament under No. 64. Prior to her election to the Kyiv City Council, she worked as an assistant to MP and presidential crony Yuriy Stets. Stets, in keeping with the long-standing tradition of cronyism, is one of the president's "grey cardinals." Therefore, it seems his assistant has become a bit cramped and bored in the Kyiv City Council.
The only "semi-rogue" from Klitschko
Number 101 on the BPP list is Pavlo Ihorovych Tarasyuk. The only thing this member of the Kyiv City Council's Information Policy and Advertising Committee is known for is his recent request to the Kyiv Mayor for an additional 11 million hryvnias for the Khreshchatyk newspaper. Perhaps he'll be lucky enough to be a member of a similar committee in the Verkhovna Rada, influencing the distribution of frequencies and budgets for state television and radio companies.
"The Impossibles"
Since these esteemed deputies will still remain on the Kyiv City Council, and we will still have time to take a closer look at their vigorous imitation of activity, we will briefly review them.
No. 142 is Volodymyr Prokopiv, head of the Kyiv City Council's Commission on Urban Development, Architecture, and Land Use. So far, he's only remembered for boasting that, under his leadership, land commission meetings are held in a super-open format. However, the commission's work hasn't changed at all since the time of its "criminal predecessors."
No. 149 is Andriy Mykolayovych Strannikov, co-chair of the UDAR-Solidarity faction and head of the Kyiv City Council Committee on Budget and Socioeconomic Development. His only contribution to Kyiv residents may be his decision to abandon the construction project in Berezniaky, which residents of Serafimovich Street have been fighting for years. The former candidate for Kyiv City Council Secretary has not been noted for anything else of significance.
No. 153 – Oleksiy Yuriyovych Okopny, member of the Kyiv City Council Committee on Trade, Entrepreneurship, and Regulatory Policy. He also didn't distinguish himself in any significant way. Perhaps if someone else had sat on this committee instead of him, Kyiv would have long ago adopted a proper Small Industrial Facade (SIA) Placement Procedure: kiosks would contribute 150-200 million UAH annually to the city budget, and entrepreneurs and residents would be happy.
No. 160 – Vitaly Valerievich Roslyakov, member of the Kyiv City Council's Property Committee. He is also the former head of Andriy Strannikov's public reception office and an assistant to Viktor Chumak, head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Combating Organized Crime. Chumak, incidentally, is running for the Verkhovna Rada in constituency No. 214, where he won the race in 2012 against the "young talent" Oles Dovhyi.
No. 168 is occupied by Yaroslav Volodymyrovych Gorbunov, head of the Dnipro District State Administration and member of the Kyiv City Council Committee on Budget and Socioeconomic Development. Such a low-hanging fruit for an official can only be seen as a vague promise of future political prospects.
No. 170 - member of the Kyiv City Council Committee on Housing and Utilities and Fuel and Energy, and a great expert in the nuances of the "Kyiv Resident Card" project, Anatoly Romanovich Velimovsky.
Number 178 was given as an illusory bonus to another head of the Podilskaya District State Administration, Valentyn Mykolayovych Mondrievsky. Even after the elections, this gentleman, also deputy head of the Kyiv City Council Committee on Culture and Tourism, will fervently lure travelers with wallets and cameras to our ancient city.
No. 179 - member of the Kyiv City Council Commission on Urban Development, Architecture and Land Use, Viktoria Valentinovna Kustovaya, who recently took up collecting money from Kyiv residents for the preservation of Gostinny Dvor.
Following her in position #180 is Yuriy Volodymyrovych Krikunov, head of the Kyiv City Council's Healthcare and Social Policy Committee. He hasn't been caught doing anything, so he hasn't yet managed to steal money from the city budget.
The most humiliated of the district state administration heads on the BPP list is Serhiy Mykolayovych Fedorchenko, No. 189. He currently holds the positions of head of the Borodyanka District State Administration (Kyiv Oblast) and deputy head of the Kyiv City Council's Property Committee.
His partner is #190, director of the Kyivreklama public utility company and member of the Kyiv City Council's Information Policy and Advertising Committee, Oleg Vyacheslavovich Kalinichenko. So he'll definitely have time to finalize Kyiv's next advertising concept.
And finally, in the most unfortunate position—#195—is Heorhiy Ihorovych Yasinsky, Secretary of the Kyiv City Council's Budget and Socioeconomic Development Committee. Considering the capital's poor performance in both its budget and socioeconomic development, Mr. Yasinsky should be more focused on his immediate work.
The Radical Four
Of the seven members of Lyashko's Radical Party faction in the Kyiv City Council, barring any unforeseen developments, three deputies will jump to the Rada.
No. 2 on the party list is the head of the faction of the same name in the Kyiv City Council of the party of the same name, and also a member of the property committee, Andriy Sergeyevich Lozovoy.
Ihor Volodymyrovych Mosiychuk, head of the Kyiv City Council's Commission on Law Enforcement, Law and Order, and the Fight against Corruption, leaves the capital's assembly at number 9. He is also known for his escapades in Vasylkiv.
Oleg Lyashko gave number 15 on his list to Yuriy Mykhailovych Sukhin, a member of the Kyiv City Council Committee on Housing and Utilities and Fuel and Energy.
And No. 18 went to the deputy head of the commission on trade, entrepreneurship and regulatory policy, Aleksey Nikolaevich Kirichenko.
Will Kyiv City Council sessions become more boring after these individuals leave? Unlikely. Although grateful TV viewers will certainly miss the brawls and "vatniks" exposed during the city council sessions.
"Freedom", f...k, "Freedom", f...k, "Freedom" (classic)
Svoboda's ratings, which demonstrated electoral miracles in 2012, are now so low that only Tyahnybok's systemic agreement with Bankova could push his political force under the umbrella of the state. But even surpassing 5% doesn't give Svoboda's Kyiv City Council members the slightest chance.
Let's take a quick look at who these unsuccessful fugitives are.
The head of the Kyiv City Council's Environmental Policy Committee, Svoboda member Ruslan Yurievich Andreyko, is No. 34. He will have to continue working to resolve the capital's many environmental problems.
No. 38 on the Svoboda list is Oleksandr Anatolyevich Semenenko, a member of the Kyiv City Council's Committee on Urban Development, Architecture, and Land Use. He has also served as deputy head of the temporary City Council Committee for Reviewing Kyiv City Council Decisions since 2006. Work, work, and work some more—that's what we can wish for Mr. Semenenko.
No. 70 - former head of the Desnyansky District State Administration, member of the Kyiv City Council Commission on Trade, Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Policy, Petro Mykolayovych Kuzik.
And No. 106, a completely ridiculous number for the Svoboda list, went to Oleksandr Nikolaevich Kolisnichenko, a member of the Kyiv City Council’s property committee.
These four comrades can certainly go wherever they want—to the Rada or to go fishing. From our observations, they're frankly of little use in the Kyiv City Council.
Gatsko will democratically betray Kyiv with citizen Gritsenko
Vasyl Hatsko, who rose on the wave of Euromaidan, barely managed to get into the Kyiv City Council in May of this year. Back then, everyone—civic activists and the media—was fighting to get his Democratic Alliance party into the Kyiv Assembly. Only thanks to a united front did the Democratic Alliance overcome the 3% barrier and bring Hatsko and Halyna Yanchenko into the Kyiv City Council.
But this wasn’t enough for Gatsko, and he was tempted by second place on the “Civic Position” list. Anatoly GritsenkoInterestingly, Vasyl Gatsko is listed as non-partisan on the GraP list. So, it seems that not only Kyiv, but the entire party, will be left without Vasyl.
The militaristic sexism of Batkivshchyna
Although all members of the Batkivshchyna faction are participating in the parliamentary elections on October 26, one significant figure will definitely remain on the Kyiv City Council: Tatyana Ivanivna Melikhova, a member of the Urban Development and Architecture Committee and head of the Kyiv City Council Decision Review Committee since 2006. Yulia Volodymyrivna has once again offended her longtime ally by giving her a clearly unwinnable spot on the list, No. 92. A similar story happened to Tatyana Ivanivna in the 2012 elections. However, perhaps Lady Yu believes she needs at least one of her own in Kyiv.
Yulia Volodymyrivna, however, will grant activist Ihor Viktorovych Lutsenko a parliamentary seat. The chair of the Kyiv City Council's standing committee on culture and tourism and the secretary of the City Council faction has previously distinguished himself with street protests, including some of dubious nature. He is also widely known in certain circles as the stepson of the former head of the National Bank. Vladimir StelmakhAnd now Igor Lutsenko, instead of attending to Kyiv's affairs, spends most of his time in the ATO zone.
Party majoritarians: Levchenko, Omelchenko and Bondarenko
The head of the Svoboda parliamentary faction in the Kyiv City Council, and also the secretary of the commission on regulations and parliamentary ethics, Yuriy Volodymyrovych Levchenko, will run for the Svoboda party in constituency No. 223 (Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv).
It must be assumed that for Yuriy Levchenko, who is very close to the President's son, Oleksiy Poroshenko, the issue of joining parliament is a matter of principle. And from the very beginning, he openly viewed his tenure on the Kyiv City Council as an interim solution.
In Kyiv's 223rd district, Levchenko will once again have to fight in court and prove to Kyiv residents that he is better than Viktor Pilipishin, who, despite being thrown into the trash bin, was still registered as a candidate by the Central Election Commission.
Let's stock up on popcorn and watch the third part of the thriller "223: Alien vs. Predator".
The former mayor of Kyiv, the far-elderly head of the Unity parliamentary faction in the Kyiv City Council, Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Omelchenko, also delighted with his political ambitions.
According to KV, his tenure on the Kyiv City Council could have been of greatest benefit to Kyiv residents in the current situation. But San Sanych decided to run for the Verkhovna Rada in single-member constituency No. 94 (Obukhov, Kyiv region), and, no less, as a member of Oleh Lyashko's Radical Party. Having likely seen enough of the antics of Klitschko's team in the Kyiv City Council, Oleksandr Omelchenko realized that he could now be of use to Ukraine only in parliament. And only as an uncompromising radical from Obukhov.
Naturally, Volodymyr Dmytrovych Bondarenko, a member of the Kyiv City Council's budget committee, head of the Batkivshchyna faction, and former chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration, is also planning a parliamentary run. He's running for parliament from his beloved Batkivshchyna party in Sviatshyn's long-cherished constituency No. 219.
Volodymyr Bondarenko's dreams of becoming Kyiv mayor appear destined to never come true. But even after struggling to secure the post of Kyiv City State Administration head as a surrogate, Bondarenko failed to prove his indispensability. It even reached the point where, under his rule, public information was concealed from Kyiv residents. He even ran for the Kyiv City Council only because he knew Poroshenko would not retain him as Kyiv City State Administration head under Mayor Klitschko.
However, Volodymyr Bondarenko loves the Verkhovna Rada very much. So much so that, while serving as head of the Kyiv City State Administration, he deliberately refused to relinquish his parliamentary mandate, as required by law. And now Volodymyr Dmytrovych is returning to his familiar atmosphere in the parliamentary corridors, where he will likely once again lead the "Stolytsia" parliamentary group. Based on KV's observations of this group's activities, it's all about the big name—and nothing more.
Private self-nomination
To complete the picture, here are the last two Kyiv City Council deputies aspiring to the Rada.
Vadym Mykhailovych Stolar, the first deputy head of the standing committee on budget and social and economic development, a non-partisan, has decided to run for parliament on his own and will run in district 217 (Obolon district, Kyiv).
And in district No. 216 (Dniprovsky district of Kyiv), another non-partisan deputy of the Kyiv City Council, member of the commission on trade, entrepreneurship and regulatory policy, Oleksandr Ivanovich Suprunenko, will be elected.
Independence is good.
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