Mayor of Kyiv City | |
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Київський міський голова | |
Appointer | Popular vote |
Term length | 4 years[2] |
Inaugural holder | Leonid Kosakivsky |
Formation | 1997 |
Website | kmr.gov.ua |
The Head of Kyiv City (Ukrainian: Київський міський голова, romanized: Kyivskyi miskyi holova), unofficially and more commonly the Mayor of Kyiv (Ukrainian: Мер Києва, romanized: Mer Kyieva), is a city official elected by popular vote who serves as a head of the Kyiv city state administration (the capital of Ukraine) and a chairperson the Kyiv City Council.
The mayor is elected for the term of four years.[2] Current mayor Vitali Klitschko was sworn in on 5 June 2014.[1] Klitschko was last reelected in the 2020 Kyiv local election with 50.52% of the votes, in the first round of the election.[3]