Kharkiv Mayor Hennady Kernes and Odesa Mayor Hennady Trukhanov agreed to create a “party of mayors”, as Lb.ua reported.
“It is about creation of “party of mayors” aimed at the electorate of south-east. The task is to participate in the parliamentary elections. It is supposed that Kernes will head the electoral list,” the news agency reads.
Probably, Trukhanov’s party “Trust actions” will be the base for the union. It was also reported that the allies except support of 1+1 media group.
“I confirm that talks took place. And not only with Trukhanov. No specific details yet. For now, mayors are uniting, technical details will be later,” Kernes stated.
In his turn, Trukhanov confirmed the information having noted that “municipal MPs of our cities have many projects…so we were thinking about implementing them”.