"Knowing Roman Petrovych as a consistent politician, I would like to say that administrative-territorial reform in Ukraine is simply necessary. Not only for the coming year, but also for the next several years," said today at the presentation of the concept of the program "Volyn, which we are building" the first number on the "Our Ukraine" list for the regional council, Volyn governor Volodymyr Bondar, addressing the head of the "Our Ukraine" election campaign, Roman Bezsmertny.
"The system of many budgets is built in such a way that they are threatened by the prospect of constantly changing. We must carry out administrative-territorial reform in order to properly build the system of local self-government. We must be as close as possible to the person who lives in a specific territory, and local budgets must satisfy their real needs," he said.
"We talked about this on the Maidan – to create and nurture such a phenomenon as the community – an association of people who have a common place of residence, a common history, and most importantly – common responsibility for this territory," he emphasized.
Roman Bezsmertny stated at a press conference in response to a question about administrative-territorial reform that the entire package of draft laws on administrative-territorial reform is ready, as he promised during his time as deputy prime minister.
"Today every day we become witnesses of the necessity of carrying out administrative-territorial reform," he said.
He also cited the example of the "Elita Tsentru" scam on the housing market and emphasized that
"If there were general plans for the development of Ukrainian cities, we would not have gotten into such a mess," said Bezsmertny.
According to him, Ukrainian cities are still being built according to the general plan of 1931.