Kyiv elects a mayor for the first time since 2008

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      Kyiv elects a mayor for the first time since 2008
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      For the residents of the capital a lot more was at stake than just the presidency on May 25. Kyiv elected a mayor and the city legislature for the first time since 2008.

      According to the exit poll by Savik Shuster Studio political talk show, Vitali Klitschko won 57 percent of the vote, leaving the runner-up Lesya Orobets far behind with 10 percent of the vote.

      The capital has lived without a mayor for the last two years since Leonid Chernovetsky, the city’s last elected mayor, resigned on June 1, 2012. He had been absent from Kyiv’s political scene for more than six months before his resignation, allowing a presidential appointee to run the city. The Kyiv city council’s legal five-year term expired in June of 2013.

      Since that time the council’s secretary Halyna Hereha, a business tycoon and wife of the Party of Regions lawmaker Oleksandr Hereha, was acting as city major. Until recently she ran the city along with Oleksandr Popov, an appointed head of Kyiv State Administration.

      In the last two years the ruling Party of Regions kept sabotaging local elections in Kyiv through an array of legal means because its popularity had vanished. Previously, the Regions and allies controlled the 120-seat council. Now, power has shifted to Klitschko’s UDAR, which got 42 percent of the votes, according to Shuster Studio’s exit poll. A handful of smaller parties have also won seats.
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      The new Kyiv mayor and the city council are elected for less than a year and a half. According to election legislation, the next elections of a Kyiv mayor and the city council will be held in the fall of 2015. Then the Kyiv mayor will serve for four years and the city council will be elected for a five-year term.

      Kyiv territorial election commission is expected to publish the official results of mayoral elections by May 31.