Gaidar leaves the post of deputy Saakashvili

The acting deputy chairman of the Odessa Regional State Administration for Social Affairs, Maria Gaidar, said that she wrote a statement about leaving her position, Timer reports. According to the publication, the activists of the “Self -Defense of Odessa” and the local “Automayed” demanded that she resign and leave Ukraine.

“I am departing from the post of deputy, all cases will lead Solomiya (deputy head of the regional administration of Mikhail Saakashvili Solomiya Bobrovskaya). We want to share the Department of Health and Social Policy. We will continue open contests, I honestly worked here, ”Gaidar quotes Timer quoted.

The publication clarifies that Gaidar is not going to leave Ukraine and intends to work as an adviser to Governor Saakashvili.

At the same time, RBC, citing an employee of the press service of the Odessa Regional State Administration, writes that information about the dismissal of Maria Gaidar "is currently not true."

On May 1, a new law on public service in Ukraine entered into force, which prohibits officials to have second citizenship, as well as combine the position of deputy governor and the status of a deputy