On October, 20 the parliamentary Committee on the Public Power Organisation, Local Self-Government, Regional and Urban Development considered the Draft Law On the City of Kyiv – the Capital of Ukraine (№ 2143-3) and recommended the Verkhovna Rada passing it in second reading and as a whole.

«The Kyiv City State Administration will become a prefecture to control the legitimacy, represent the public authorities in the capital, fulfil state programmes, not interfering in managerial, economic and budget processes in Kyiv. Thus, the Kyiv mayor will be independent on the central authorities’ whims and will be responsible for everything going on in the city. The head of the Kyiv City State Administration will have exclusively prefecture powers», - said during the meeting of the Committee Vitalii Bezghin, a people’s deputy of Ukraine, the head of the subcommittee on the administrative and territorial arrangement and local self-government.