Hundreds of Kyivans came to protest outside the Kyiv administration building on June 2 to demand elections after on May 30 the Constitutional Court ruled that Kyiv will remain without an elected city mayor and city council until October 2015.
The mayor’s seat has been empty since June 2012 when controversial Leonid Chernovetsky resigned from the post just days before his legal term expired. The
city council’s term expired on June 2.
Currently
Galyna Hereha, head of the Kyiv city council,
is
acting city mayor. She is a lot less visible than the
city manager Oleksandr Popov,
who heads the executive branch
of the
city.
Popov is a member of the ruling Party of Regions and was
appointed by President Viktor Yanukovych
in summer 2010 as Chernovetsky’s deputy.
