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Instead, he attends meetings about the budget and city management more often.
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko over six years was present at only 437 of 2 350 Kyiv City Council votes that were substantively land issues and voted for 168 decisions. The City Council has worked without elections for seven years, and land decisions there are mostly made by faction votes. Even when the mayor is in the chamber, he does not press the button in 62% of land votes, the civic initiative “Holka” reports.
When Klitschko votes, his vote can decide the fate of a plot. That happened in Natalka Park in Obolon: by 61 vote, that is the minimally required number, the City Council leased to the company Gyvexhaus 1,28 ha for 10 years for a restaurant or other commercial facilities. Among those who voted “for” was the mayor, so without his vote the decision would not have passed. Deputies adopted it even though construction work had previously been carried out on the plot without land rights. A criminal proceeding was opened regarding this.
Most land decisions are adopted by faction votes. They are most actively supported by Batkivshchyna and the mayor’s faction UDAR: 83% and 82% of their deputies show up for land votes, and of those present 90% vote “for.” Deputies from European Solidarity and Servant of the People support such decisions equally: 59% of their faction. The parties that support land decisions the least are Yednist and Holos.
“If the city budget is a renewable resource and Kyiv will have a new budget every year, land is an especially valuable resource. Once it is given away, the city will very likely not be able to get it back,” emphasized Holka civic initiative head Iryna Fedoriv.
According to Iryna Fedoriv, the mayor probably understands the reputational risks and therefore distances himself from land votes, but he represents the UDAR party. That raises a question for the party executive chair Artur Palatnyi: why does Kyiv City Council deputy Mykhailo Terentiev, who was involved in NABU’s “Clean City” operation, still chair the land commission? Other parties must answer as well: UDAR has only 30 votes out of 120, while the majority makes decisions. Batkivshchyna, European Solidarity, and Servant of the People also vote on land issues.
Klitschko also participates less often in consideration of construction, urban planning, and lease matters. Compared with his usual attendance, the mayor takes part in votes on land and construction 19 percentage points less often, and in lease matters 27 points less often. In contrast, he attends votes on the budget and management 13 and 16 points more often than usual.
Ahead of the sixth anniversary of the City Council elections, Holka launched the tool “Recharging the country is in your power. City Council — Kyiv.” It describes the council’s helpful and harmful decisions and shows how each deputy and Mayor Vitali Klitschko voted on them.
The initiative to remove from the City Council’s land commission its chair Mykhailo Terentiev, a figure in NABU’s “Clean City” case, in December 2025 did not gather enough votes. Kyiv City Council deputy Viktoriia Ptashnyk pointed to Terentiev’s alliance with Batkivshchyna.
Earlier, on 9 October 2025, the City Council adopted new land management rules. They were supported by 61 deputies, the minimally necessary number. The rules provide for an open online registry of land cases. They were developed with the involvement of NABU specialists.
On how a situational majority formed in the City Council and why the schemes from Chernovetskyi’s era still operate, ZN.UA editor of the internal politics section Inna Vedernikova analyzes this in the ZN.UA article “Corruption in Kyiv. Who commissioned NABU the back office of Komarnytskyi and what does Bankova have to do with it?”
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