Block of Leonid Chernovetsky

In the elections to the Kiev City Council on March 26, 2006, 12.93% of voters voted for Leonid Chernovetsky’s bloc, which gave the political force 21 seats and the second place following the results of the vote ^[1] . By December, the faction was the basis of the majority of supporters of the mayor in the Kyiv City Council (Kyivrad), which also included factions of the Party of Regions and the Civil Asset of Kiev, the deputy group Gromadsky Zyshysnyk and almost all of the faction of the Kiev organization of the Socialist Party , the People’s Bloc of Litvin and the deputy group “Capital reforms ^[3] ”). Blok’s faction included Stepan’s son, Chernovetsky’s son-in-law, Vyacheslav Suprunenko, son-in-law of the mayor and Alexander’s elder brother-in-law ^[4] . The opposition to the mayor was made up of three factions - the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT), Our Ukraine and Vitali Klitschko Bloc , as well as several deputies from other factions who announced the creation of the Democratic Kiev inter-faction association ^[4] .

Blok’s program in the 2008 elections included ^[5] :

• honest and controlled power of professionals;
• to each district, street and house - a representative of the Block whom residents will know in person;
• every citizen of Kiev has the right to participate in dividing the city budget, resolving the issue of building and dividing social housing, stable and affordable prices for food and medicine;
• for pensioners and people with disabilities - targeted supplements to pensions, honor and participation in solving their problems;
• employees of the medical, educational sectors, employees of social services and other budgetary and municipal institutions deserve additional salary payments, the opportunity to get their own housing;
• young people - providing access to education, employment, housing opportunities;
• Kiev housing and communal services - a complete inventory and reconstruction in order to ensure decent living conditions for Kiev residents;
• Kiev society - the municipal police elected by the people, which will ensure order;
• to everyone who needs legal assistance - free consultations in the public reception rooms of the Block.

In the elections of May 25, 2008, from the Bloc of Leonid Chernovetsky, who won 30.12% of the votes of those who participated in the elections of citizens, 43 deputies went to Kievrad ^[2] .

Immediately after his election, Anatoly Golubchenko (at that time the first deputy chairman of the Kiev city state administration), Denis Bass (also first deputy chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration), Irena Kilchitsaya (deputy chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration) and Alexander Lutsky (first deputy head of the Main Directorate of Land Resources of the Kyiv City State Administration) refused deputy mandates, remaining to work in the Kiev city administration ^[6] . Leonid Chernovetsky also refused the mandate of the deputy, since he was elected the mayor of Kiev.

According to UNIAN, among the members of the Bloc there are relatives of influential politicians of Ukraine. Andrey Zayats - relative of the People’s Deputy from the Party of Regions Vyacheslav Suprunenko; Sergey Berezenko, the former general director of the Ukrainian Drilling Company, the nephew of the People’s Deputy from the NUNS and the leader of the Sobor party, Anatoly Matvienko; Stepan Chernovetsky - the son of Leonid Mikhailovich; Victor Grinyuk, chairman of the board of directors of Promenergoexport, is the husband of Inga Ayvazova (the younger sister of the wife of the mayor) ^[7] .

In Kievrad, the Chernovetsky Bloc was led by D. Komarnitsky and A. Shlapak. The representative of the Bloc - Oles Dovgy was elected Secretary of Kyiv City Council; factions of the Party of Regions, the Civil Asset of Kiev and several deputies of other factions also voted for his election ^[8] .

Exodus of deputies and self-dissolution (2011)

On April 28, 2011, 17 deputies of the Chernovetsky bloc resigned from their faction, and in addition to Vitaliy Zhuravsky, a member of the Party of Regions (PR), who joined the PR faction, declared their non-factional status. According to the head of the board of the Penta Center for Applied Political Studies, Vladimir Fesenko , Chernovetsky left people accustomed to focus on power. Surely they received certain signals from the Kiev state administration , and now they will support her. At the same time, 25 deputies remained in the abandoned faction ^[9] .

On September 22, 2011, the faction of the Leonid Chernovetsky Bloc in the City Council ceased to exist by self-dissolution. The document was signed by 16 deputies out of 20 included in the bloc, who now called to consider themselves extra-fractional ^[10] .

• Official site of the Leonid Chernovetsky Bloc
• Chernovetsky Bloc Electoral List in 2006
• The composition of the faction in Kievrad
• Agency for Strategic Research Perspectives of Chernovetsky and his block