Conflict brewing between Kyiv City State Administration and administration's Public Council
Kyiv, April 4 (Interfax-Ukraine) – A range of public organizations have said a working group on preparations for the first meeting of the Public Council at Kyiv City State Administration is illegal.
"At present a secret plan to seize power in the Public Council via the creation of an illegal working group for preparations for the first council’s meeting, where the council's leadership is to be elected, is being made," Chairman of NGO Kyiv City Guild of Debt and Bankruptcy Experts Vadym Khabibullin said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Friday.
He said that a constituent meeting of the Public Council and Kyiv City State Administration was held on March 3. It was attended by 244 representatives of various public organizations. According to Khabibullin, the city administration at the meeting put forward a proposal that 20 members be included in the Public Council, but then it was decided that 222 members will be included in the council.
Khabibullin also said that the protocol of the meeting, which was submitted to Kyiv City State Administration Head Oleksandr Popov for signature, reads that the working group for preparations for the first council's organizational meeting was approved. But, according to him, the meeting didn\t approve this group. He said that on March 14, an initiative group of members of the Public Council formed its own working group of 10 people, and relevant documents were sent to Kyiv City State Administration and the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers.
Head of the Ukrainian Socialist Movement Oleksandr Klykov, in turn, said that the creation of the Public Council "started in a closed regime." Thus, about 1,000 public organizations submitted applications for participation in the constituent meeting, but only about 300 received invitations.
"The officials aren't listening to the public organizations. We will do all we can for the meeting of the Public Council to take place openly and publicly, and then we will be heard," Klykov said.