Each land would have to send at least 10 deputies to the national assembly, which would ensure the possibility of party grouping and proportional elections.

The weakness of one of the main structural links of the executive vertical — the system of local bodies — was considered one of the reasons for the fall of the Central Rada.

However, the corresponding declaration was never transformed into their real inclusion in Ukraine, which became possible only during the time of the Hetmanate of Pavlo Skoropadskyi.

On April 29, 1918, the Central Council adopted the Constitution of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which granted zemlias, volosts and hromadas the rights of broad local self-government based on the principles of decentralization.

[7] After coming to power on April 30, 1918, Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi canceled the previous administrative-territorial division and returned to the Russian scheme (governorates, povits and volosts).