Hromada

Hromada (Ukrainian: Громада) is a former basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine. Types of hromadas were: Rural council, Settlement council and City council. Similar terms could be found in Poland and Belarus.

This article is about a historical basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine. For its usage in Poland, see Gromada. For its usage in Belarus, see Hramada. For other uses, see Hromada (disambiguation).
For the administrative division known as amalgamated hromada, see amalgamated hromada.

In history of Ukraine and Belarus such associations appeared first as village communities, which gathered their meetings for discussing and resolving current issues. In the 19th century there were number of political organization with the same name.

The Constitution of Ukraine and some other laws, including the "Law on local self-governance", delegate certain rights and obligations for "hromada". Types of hromadas include cities, urban-type settlements, rural settlements, and villages. In his draft constitutional amendments of June 2014 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko proposed changing the administrative divisions of Ukraine, which should include regions, districts and "hromadas".[1]

On 5 February 2015 the Ukrainian parliament adopted the law "On voluntary association of territorial communities", which creates new "amalgamated hromadas", whereby various types of hromadas including settlement councils, rural councils and cities of district significance can merge to form a new unified administrative unit.[2] New local elections in these united territorial communities have since been held.[3]

See also

References
  1. Poroshenko suggests granting status of regions to Crimea, Kyiv, Sevastopol, creating new political subdivision of 'community' Archived 2014-07-01 at the Wayback Machine, Interfax-Ukraine (26 June 2014)
  2. "Decentralization". The Reforms Guide. 10 February 2017. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  3. Batkivschyna party says it gets most votes at local elections, Interfax Ukraine (25 December 2017)
    Police investigate voter bribing cases as local elections held in 51 territorial communities, UNIAN (25 December 2017)
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