If a mayor is not a perpetual motion machine, how do some of them work for 15-20 years? In a comfortable office on the conventional third floor of the city council, with a trusted secretary and a watch on his hand who remembers all the budgets of the year since 2006.

And now, former MP Oleksandr Chernenko has published a document, which allegedly shows that the Presidential Office (PO) has decided to put an end to long-lived mayors. The idea is as follows: two terms in office in your lifetime – and "goodbye, office".

According to Chernenko, first of all, Bankova wants to get rid of one of its biggest and oldest opponents – Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. The list is followed by other old-timers: Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi, Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov, Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov and others.

The authorities deny this initiative, claiming that it is an elaborate fake by Klitschko's team. Who really started the war against long-serving mayors and whether it really happened? LIGA.net looked for tails in this story: what happened. 

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