The decision to appoint Viktor Vakarash as head of Kyiv Regional State Administration is legal, the secretariat of the Ukrainian president has reported.
“I think the president’s decision is absolutely proper,” the secretariat’s first deputy head, Yuriy Yekhanurov, said while introducing the newly appointed regional governor in Kyiv on Monday.
“[The presidential secretariat] sent a submission [on Vakarash’s appointment as Kyiv regional governor to the Cabinet of Ministers] over two months ago. We expected an answer, but an answer was not given, neither negative nor positive. [This was] taken into account when a decision on the heads of regional and district state administrations was taken,” he said.
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko earlier nominated ex-Ukrainian Premier Valeriy Pustovoitenko, and later the mayor of the town of Ukrainka, Pavlo Kozyriov, for this post, but the president didn’t back her nominees.
Under Ukrainian laws, candidates for regional governors are nominated by the prime minister.
The Cabinet of Ministers said that Tymoshenko had not signed any submission on the appointment of Kyiv regional governor.
