Vitaliy Bezgyn resigns from Committee on State Power and Regional Development

As reported by Facebook

Renowned Ukrainian politician Vitaliy Bezgin announced that he submitted his resignation from the Committee on State Power, Local Self-Government, Regional Development and Urban Planning.

“I wrote a resignation letter from the Committee on State Power, Local Self-Government, Regional Development and Urban Planning.”

– Vitaliy Bezgin

He also stressed that we need to move forward on issues of community and territorial development, public administration, and international cooperation without unnecessary burdens.

“We must move forward on issues of community and territorial development, public administration, and international cooperation without unnecessary burdens.”

– Vitaliy Bezgin

During his tenure in the committee, he highlighted a number of achievements: the adoption and implementation of many legislative initiatives, including the new administrative-territorial arrangement of the country, the law on service in local self-government bodies, the principles of state regional policy with the introduction of functional types of territories, the foundations of European cohesion policy, the legal framework for the functioning of local self-government during the war, the law on the decolonization of geographical names, and others.

Bezgin also emphasized that the subcommittee, of which he was the chair, made a significant contribution to the committee’s work.

“Over the entire period of this term, the committee processed and the Verkhovna Rada adopted a total of 172 draft acts. Of these, 91 were processed and prepared precisely by the Subcommittee on Administrative-Territorial Structure and Local Self-Government, i.e., 52.9%”

– Vitaliy Bezgin

Subsequently, Bezgin thanked his colleagues and team for their productive work and assured that work on current initiatives would continue; none of them would be left to fend for themselves.

“Work on all current initiatives will continue; none of them will be left to fend for themselves”

– Vitaliy Bezgin

According to the data at the time, in 2019 Bezgin was elected a People’s Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the 9th convocation from the Servant of the People party, number 77 on the list as an independent. From April 2021 he chaired the Subcommittee on Administrative-Territorial Structure.

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