Moskal asks all the civil servants, who have dual citizenship, to resign voluntarily by May 1

On May 1 this year, the new revision of the Law of Ukraine "On civil service" comes into force.According to Art. 84 of the Law – "Termination of the civil service in case of loss or restriction of civil servant’s eligibility to civil service" – the grounds for termination of civil service due to the loss or restriction of the eligibility to civil service is acquisition of citizenship of another state by a civil servant. In the event of acquisition of citizenship of another state, the person, who appointed this civil servant, must immediately dismiss him or her within three days from the date such acquisition occurrs or becomes known.

– Therefore, I call those civil servants, who in addition to Ukrainian have acquired citizenship of another state, to voluntarily resign before the law entry into force, ie by May 1 of this year – the head of the Regional State Administration Hennadiy Moskal says.

– In this case, the Regional State Administration will not disclose the fact of dual citizenship of such persons. If the fact of dual, triple, etc. citizenship is found out after May 1, the civil servant will be dismissed from work involving public media.

The law "On State Service of Ukraine" in the new version does not apply to village, town, city, regional councils and their chairmen who, by law, are not considered civil servants. In addition, the Law does not apply to employees who work for government