This was stated in Lutsk by Vice Prime Minister for Humanitarian and Social Affairs Vyacheslav Kyrylenko during a one-day visit. "Despite everything, we managed to increase the real incomes of citizens by 20%, and pensions by 18%. At the beginning of 2005, no one believed that we would be able to introduce payments to mothers in the amount of 8,500 hryvnias, that we would be able to almost double the level of the average salary and create a million jobs. Today, in the election advertising of our opponents, we are told how much the standard of living in Ukraine has deteriorated, but facts and figures, unfortunately, say the opposite.
All the shortcomings are the result of the fact that we had a pre-revolutionary parliament that did not correspond to the post-revolutionary progressive executive branch of power. The fact that we did not engage in propaganda of our achievements does not mean that nothing was done, and the vast majority of our achievements are in fact of a revolutionary nature."
To the question about the creation of an orange coalition and the possibility of unification with the Party of Regions, Vyacheslav Kyrylenko answered: "All the contradictions and conflicts that Ukrainians observed during the elections are a completely natural phenomenon; an orange coalition will definitely be created in the future parliament, and there will be no unification with the Party of Regions, not because we do not like them — "Our Ukraine" has nothing in common with the Party of Regions because we profess completely different political views."