Deputies of Kakhovka City Council resign due to the ban on traveling abroad

Four deputies of the Kakhovka City Council resigned their seats early.

This was reported by the Center for Investigative Journalism, citing its own sources.

Three deputies from the 'Servant of the People' party resigned from their positions - Oksana Radchenko, director of the Kakhovka City Employment Center, Oleg Barabash, director of Vector Kakhovka LLC Oleh Barabash and director of Schastlivtsevo & K LLC Maxim Surin.

Also, the deputy from the European Solidarity party Mykhailo Honchar, an expert on education at the Association of Ukrainian Cities.

According to the sources of the Crisis Media Center, the main reason for the early resignation is the inability of MPs to travel abroad due to the government's ban. The ban also applies to other members of local councils, who have no powers during martial law - their functions have been transferred to the heads of local military administrations.

In total, eight deputies in the Kakhovka City Council resigned early.

In Odesa, Kherson, and Mykolaiv, the city councils lost significant numbers of deputies: in Kherson, more than a third of the deputies resigned, in Odesa, one in four, and in Mykolaiv, two, in part because of their pro-Russian stance. Due to the ban on parties and unfilled mandates, key commissions are blocked in the councils, and it is impossible to resume their full-fledged work.

During the current term, city councils in regional centers lost 145 deputies, which is 12.5% of their full complement. According to the study, the situation is not the best in Odesa, Kherson, and Mykolaiv, where due to the resignation of deputies and the ban of the parties that nominated them, it is not even technically possible to fill the empty seats. As a result, some councils are effectively paralyzed.

The Odesa City Council lacks 8 deputies, which is a quarter of the total number of deputies. All of them were elected from the now banned parties - Shariy's Party and OPFL. Because of this, for example, the Standing Committee on Regulations, Deputy Ethics and Corruption Prevention cannot work - there is no quorum. The parties that nominated these MPs do not have the right to replace those who have left, so the situation is in limbo. None of the eight vacant seats have been filled.

Катерина Глушко