Kherson City Council no relation local politician
Political career in Ukraine
Kherson City Councillor (1998–2002)
Saldo was elected to the Kherson City Council in 1998 and served until 2002. In 2001, he joined the Party of Regions and was named the head of its branch in Kherson Oblast.Deputy Governor of Kherson Oblast (2001-2002)
In 2001, he was named deputy governor of Kherson Oblast, in charge of construction, housing and communal services, and served until 2002.Mayor of Kherson (2002–2012)
In 2002, Saldo ran in the elections for mayor of Kherson. He won the race against Serhiy Sokolov, the former head of traffic police in Crimea by only 20,000 votes. In 2005, ahead of the upcoming 2006 elections, in which Saldo would have once again faced Sokolov as his main opponent, Solokov died in an car accident. During the election itself in 2006, Saldo won re-election to a second term. That same year, Saldo was also named the head of the Party of Regions branch in Kherson city. Saldo won re-election to a third term in 2010, and served as mayor until 2012.The Association for the Reintegration of Crimea reported after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in March 2022 that Saldo's ten-year mayoralty was a "time of total embezzlement and corruption that entangled all spheres of the city's life, at times grandiose scandals". Kherson journalist Konstantin Ryzhenko said that "Saldo has become a symbol of decline, economic ruin, corruption, forcible takeovers and gang violence", and that the former mayor's name was "connected to a few very suspicious deaths", none of which were "investigated properly".
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