The mayor of Yuzhnoukrainsk wants to replace the composition of the executive committee due to unproductive work

The mayor of Yuzhnoukrainsk Valerii Onufriienko decided to replace the members of the executive committee since they are not going to the meeting.

This became known at the session of the Yuzhnoukrainsk City Council.

He offered the deputies to consider the relevant draft decision.

«We were supposed to have a meeting of the executive committee, but there was no quorum. We have a lot of questions left open. I decided to come to you with a proposal on this decision,» said the mayor.

However, the deputies drew the mayor's attention to the fact that the issue did not go through the appropriate procedure and was not considered by commissions. In addition, the draft decision was not published on the website of the city council. Therefore, this issue was not included in the agenda of the session.

Subsequently, the draft decision on the formation of the executive committee and approval of its composition was published on the website of the city council. The document states that there should be 13 people in the composition. The issue must be passed by deputy commissions, and then it will be considered again at the session.

We will remind that the mayor of Yuzhnoukrainsk Valerii Onufriienko, who resumed his post, filed a lawsuit in court and demands to collect from the budget 653 thousand hryvnias in compensation for the period of forced absence.

We will remind that the reinstatement of the mayor was preceded by the decision of the Fifth Administrative Court of Appeal, which closed the appeals in the case of Valery Onufrienko.

Resignation of Valery Onufriyenko

On April 27, a draft decision on the early termination of the powers of Mayor Valerii Onufriienko appeared on the website of the Yuzhnoukrainsk City Council. The draft decision on early termination of powers was initiated by the head of the commission on ethics and legality, deputy from «European Solidarity» Olena Petryna.

In the explanatory note to the document, she claimed that the mayor of Yuzhnoukrainsk repeatedly violated the law and even beat his deputy Maria Drozdova. The Yuzhnoukrainsk newspaper «Kontakt» also reported that because of this incident, the mayor was deprived of the right to carry a weapon, which was issued to him during martial law.

Later, he was informed about the suspicion of committing a crime.

On June 16, deputies of the Southern Ukrainian City Council recognized the unsatisfactory work of Mayor Valerii Onufriienko and prematurely terminated his powers.

Valerii Onufriienko became the mayor in November 2020. He ran for «Servant of the People» and won with a margin of 1% of the vote.