Bill No. 5655: Yelena Shulyak, chairperson of the Servant of the People party, continues to push for the interests of large developers
Today, the Verkhovna Rada (Verkhovna Rada) Committee on the organization of state power, local self-government, regional development and urban planning, under pressure from the chairman of the Servant of the People party and at the same time the deputy chairman of the committee Olena Shulyak (pictured left), may for the second time consider draft law No. 5655. This bill gives large developers the right to take over their objects, creates a new potentially corrupt body of the Town Planning Chamber under the Ministry of Regional Development and introduces a systemic disorder into the processes of urban planning. Despite the lack of votes in the committee, the extremely negative attitude towards the bill on the part of the mayors of large and small cities, crushing criticism of the architectural community and resistance from civil society, Elena Shulyak really wants to push through No. 5655 for the second time in order to put it on the agenda of BP for 13th December 14.
Sources in VR told about this KV.
Yesterday, on December 7, in Verkhovna Rada, on the basis of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Organization of State Power, Local Self-Government, Regional Development and Urban Planning, a dialogue “Parliament and Local Self-Government: Dialogue on the Future” was held.
From the Parliament and the Cabinet of Ministers, it was attended by:
- First Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Alexander Kornienko;
- Deputy Ministers of the Ministry of Regional Development Vyacheslav Negoda and Ivan Luker;
- Member of the Verkhovna Rada Budget Committee Oleksandr Pasichny (Servant of the People faction);
- Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Organization of State Power, Local Self-Government, Regional Development and Urban Planning Alina Zagoruiko (Servant of the People faction);
- Chairman of the Subcommittee on Regional Policy and Local Budgets of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Organization of State Power, local self-government, regional development and urban planning Vyacheslav Rublev (Servant of the People faction);
- Chairman of the Subcommittee on Administrative-Territorial Structure and Local Self-Government of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Organization of State Power, Local Self-Government, Regional Development and Urban Planning Vitaly Bezgin (Servant of the People faction), who moderated the meeting.
From the side of local self-government, the executive director of the Association of Ukrainian Cities (AMU) Oleksandr Slobozhan, the chairman of the All-Ukrainian Association of Communities (VAG) – the Kiptovsky village chairman (Chernihiv region) Volodymyr Kuchma and the executive director of the All-Ukrainian Association of Communities Ivan Slobodyanyk, representatives of the Association of United Communities, the head of the Ternopil Regional Council Mikhail Golovko, Chairman of the Volyn Regional Council Grigory Nedopad, Chairman of the Lviv Regional Council Irina Grimak, mayors of cities and heads of territorial communities. Many representatives of local government took part in the meeting online. Although, according to KV, not all city mayors knew about this event and not all were invited.
Representatives of local self-government thanked the parliamentarians and deputy ministers of the Ministry of Regional Development for some achievements in joint work, but there was more criticism.
Thus, the head of the Ternopil Regional Council Mikhail Golovko asked two systemic questions:
- what to do and what will happen to the district councils, as inherited from the four-level Soviet system?
- why do the regional councils still have no influence on the formation of regional budgets?
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Parliamentarians assured that the district councils would be liquidated. But it remained unclear whether the mono-majority plans to eventually liquidate the districts. Recall that the issue of the future of the districts has been walking between the government and parliament for more than a year.
The mayor of Bucha (Kyiv region) Anatoliy Fedoruk, the mayor of Yahotyn (Kyiv region) Natalia Dziuba, the mayor of Slavutych (Kyiv region) Yuriy Fomichev, the village chairman of the Gatnensky community (Kyiv region) Oleksandr Palamarchuk, each in their own way, complained about the conflicts in the tax legislation regarding the administration of the PIT, the State Treasury Department, the lack of status combatants among members of the DFTG, poor communication between communities and central authorities, etc.
“President Volodymyr Zelensky personally intervened twice in resolving the issue of compensating for the difference in utility tariffs and military personal income tax,” — said the mayor of Zhytomyr Sergey Sukhomlin.
And in the Kherson region liberated from Russian infidels, for some reason, four communities were removed from the list of the zone of constant hostilities, although the Muscovites continue to shell these communities, said a representative of local authorities from the Kherson region.
on bill No. 5655, which was removed from the agenda of the Verkhovna Rada after a meeting on November 30 in the Office of the President (OP) with the participation of the Deputy Head of the Office of the President Kirill Timoshenko, the main author and lobbyist (Chairman of the Servant of the People party) Elena Shulyak, the leadership of the PSA and the leadership of the PSA and mayors of big cities.
Mayor of Belopolye (Sumy region) Yuriy Zarko simply thanked the parliamentarians that No. 5655 was withdrawn from consideration.
And the mayor of Chertkiv (Ternopil region) Volodymyr Shmatko noted that in No. 5655 it is necessary to finalize the powers of local architects, strengthen the powers of local governments over unauthorized construction and changing the facades of historical buildings. Because bill No. 5655 transfers all these powers to the Ministry of Regional Development and individuals (the mayor of Chertkiv means the Town Planning Chamber under the Ministry of Regional Development and pocket sole proprietors of large developers, who, according to Elena Shulyak, should control the activities of these developers – KV).
KV sources in parliament say that criticism of the bill was not limited to these two public reproaches against No. 5655.
“When receiving letters, the heads of the communities said to Alexander Kornienko, Vitaly Bezgin and other parliamentarians:“ No need accept 5655″. And the same topic was actively discussed after the public part of the event,” a source in parliament said.
Based on the results of these conversations, even in the profile committee of the Verkhovna Rada (on the organization of state power, local self-government, regional development and urban planning) they began to guess that something was really wrong with bill No. 5655.
“To Elena Shulyak, who also lied to the President that the NACP gave positive feedback on the finalized bill (the NACP did not remove any of the systemic objections regarding corruption risks before the second reading – KV), questions arose. And it seems that in the committee, which recently, without reading 2,100 pages of a comparative table, adopted No. 5655 for the second reading, there are no longer enough votes to approve it again before the second reading, ”said a source in parliamentary circles to KV.
Moreover, yesterday, on December 7, the secretariat of the profile committee of the Verkhovna Rada was still preparing a table based on the comments of the NAPC, AMU, GNEU, notaries (Bill No. – for corruption risks, – KV). That is, the volume of material for analysis by the members of the profile committee will increase significantly, and parliamentarians will not be able to even read all the materials in one day.
Despite this, today, December 8, Elena Shulyak intends to hold a meeting of the profile subcommittee on agreeing on new amendments up to No. 5655 and immediately after that, hold a committee meeting to approve the bill for the second time before the second reading
“Shulyak has not yet been appointed chairman of the committee, and he behaves as if he is already in charge here,” one of the members of the profile committee of the Verkhovna Rada complained to KV, noting that such behavior of the chairman of the Servant of the People proves even more that much of the bill is clearly not so, and the mayors and architects are absolutely right against the bill.
“At a preliminary meeting with the mayors of the cities (November 30 in the OP, in which, in addition to the executive director of the PSA Alexander Slobozhan, in particular, the mayor of Dnipro Boris Filatov and the mayor of Lviv Andriy Sadovy, – KV) took part, Shulyak threw a tantrum. She shouted that all local self-government bodies were corrupt, that she (the head of the Servant of the People party, – KV) set the prosecutor's office on them, and that she (Elena Shulyak, – KV) was not a “construction mafia” and in no way influenced construction business (Shulyak is still a co-owner of Midland Development Ukraine LLC and Creator LLC, which are directly related to the real estate market and the construction industry – KV). Although none of those present accused her of this, ”said a source in BP.
“It seems that for Shulyak, draft law No. 5655 is some kind of important test, on which her political future depends, either her material condition, or something even more important in general. There is no other way to explain her behavior,” another interlocutor of KV in the Rada noted.
Recall that KV wrote about the obvious building union of the head of the Servant of the People party, Elena Shulyak, and the secretary of the profile committee of the Verkhovna Rada, Vice President of the Confederation builders of Ukraine and the owner of the group of construction companies “Perfect Group” Dmitry Isaenko (in the collage on the right), elected to parliament from the banned pro-Russian party “OPZh”.
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