MP Honcharenko announces increase in public transportation prices in Kyiv due to withdrawal of UAH 8 bln from city budget

The price of public transport will increase in Kyiv due to the central government's withdrawal of UAH 8 billion from the capital's budget, Member of Parliament Oleksiy Honcharenko (European Solidarity) has claimed.

"The price of public transport will increase in Kyiv because the Office has withdrawn UAH 8 billion for bonuses to officials. Here is a document from the Finance Department of the Kyiv City State Administration, which clearly states: UAH 8 billion should have gone, among other things, to transport, roads, schools, hospitals. Bankova stole this money from Kyiv residents. Kyiv cannot support the old fares, because the budget hole created by the so-called servants of the people is huge," Honcharenko wrote in Telegram.

He illustrated the message with a scanned copy of the message of the Finance Department of the Kyiv City State Administration addressed to the mayor of the capital, Vitaliy Klitschko, which states that the budget allocations for the Department of Transport Infrastructure for the current year are set at UAH 9 billion 16.4 million (of which UAH 4.2 billion for the Kyivpastrans Enterprise and UAH 4.8 billion for the Kyiv Metro Enterprise), which is 12.3% of the city's general budget fund expenditures. At the same time, the difference in tariffs declared before the start of the budget period was UAH 11 billion 128 million.

The People's Deputy emphasized that the capital has always had the lowest prices for public transport in Ukraine. "Now it is UAH 8 for one trip and UAH 6.50 if you travel constantly. Residents of other cities can compare with theirs. Now transport fares in Kyiv will increase several times," said Honcharenko.

As reported, on August 20, the Verkhovna Rada adopted amendments to the state budget (draft law No. 13439-3) by 229 votes, which provide, among other things, for the withdrawal of UAH 8 billion from the Kyiv budget at the expense of income tax funds. 196 people's deputies from the Servant of the People party, 15 from the Dovira deputy group, nine from the Restoration of Ukraine, one from the Batkivshchyna party, and eight non-faction deputies voted "in favor."