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MPs send mayor to shrink

MPs in Ukraine have demanded a psychiatric report on a city mayor after a string of eccentric initiatives.

Kiev mayor Leonid Chernovetsky recently issued a call for all OAPs to be tempted into state care with a diet of caviar and pineapple. Now the Ukrainian parliament has called for medical tests after fears for his mental condition.

The mayor recently approved plans for a giant sculpture of a flying cow and a public monument to street lights.

The mayor has refused to comment on the MPs’ demands and has instead gone on holiday, local media reported. But Kiev residents have demanded he return home and undergo medical examinations immediately.

Irina Kurylo, 64, who lives in the Ukrainian capital, said: “Anyone who thinks old people are going to just move out of the homes they have lived in for decades because someone offers them a bit of exotic fruit and caviar is obviously completely bonkers. He needs testing.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .