In his article for the Dzerkalo Tyzhnya (the Mirror of the Week), Deputy Minister of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine Vyacheslav Nehoda explaines who does not want the rayon level to be reformed and why.

«There can be no reforms failing to be opposed to. All large-scale changes in the statecraft are aimed at transforming inefficient power systems with a huge number of civil servants, having merged into the system, and feeling comfortable there. Nowadays this opposition is rather obvious not only on the part of the part of rayon councils, although being hidden, but also on the part of rayon state administrations, representatives of other rayon authorities and separate hromadas: they outcry and “lament over “their” rayon liquidation or fight for the right to be a rayon centre», - wrote Vyacheslav Nehoda.