Roman Bezsmertnyy told a news conference in Kyiv that he is stepping down to concentrate on preparing for parliamentary elections next March.
Bezsmertnyy is head of the election campaign of the pro-presidential Our Ukraine party.
Campaigning for the polls officially kicks off on 26 November .
(Interfax/ ITAR-TASS)
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