The campaign for the election of the Lutsk city mayor is developing slowly and to a large extent latently. Of the officially declared candidates, so far one can confidently speak of only one – the UNP nominee Yevhen Melnyk. True, in his campaign, Melnyk's team emphasizes the public component of the candidate's image, because being tied to a low-rated party does not add chances for the candidate. According to Orest Palchuk, an expert at the KIS "Leon-Analitik", currently the mayoral election campaign contains three main intrigues: whether incumbent city mayor Anton Kryvytskyi will run, whom the city branch of the Tymoshenko bloc will nominate, and from which force the head of the "MER" fund Taisiia Batorevych will run. As for the latter, the intrigue lies in the fact that her nomination from the "Our Ukraine" bloc had already been preliminarily announced by the head of the Lutsk city organization of NSNU Mykola Suriak, but the PR campaign of Taisiia Borysivna is actively handled by the head of the regional political council of the "PORA-PRP" bloc in the region, the leader of Volyn reformers Oleksandr Martyniuk. Therefore, the expert suggests the possibility of T. Batorevych running from this political force as well. The coming weeks, if not days, according to O. Palchuk, should provide answers to all three questions, although the deadline, of course, remains the date of the official completion of candidate nominations in mid-February.