Local budgets grow sevenfold thanks to decentralization – President Poroshenko

The budgets of local self-government bodies have increased sevenfold thanks to decentralization reform being implemented in Ukraine.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said this at the opening of a new GualaPack plant in Sumy, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"The budgets of local self-government bodies have increased sevenfold thanks to the decentralization reform, which was the backbone of my presidential campaign," the President said.

In the same context, Poroshenko has assured that the processes of bringing economy out of the shadows and tackling corruption are absolutely irreversible.

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