The head of the Batkivshchyna All-Ukrainian Union faction in the Lutsk City Council, member of the European Association of Vascular Surgeons Volodymyr Lytvyniuk, has been officially nominated as the first candidate for the post of Lutsk city mayor. "I am not going alone, but with a new, young and promising team, to govern differently – openly, honestly and transparently. And not to manipulate laws, as the current city authorities have learned to do over many years...," Volodymyr Lytvyniuk stated during a press conference after the unification party conference of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.
He believes that the very system of this power, its relations with ordinary people, must be changed: "After the Maidan we have become different. We have realized that we can decide our own fate ourselves. We changed Kuchma, who occupied his seat for two terms, we will also change the current mayor Kryvytskyi, who is now serving his third term. Kuchma is gone – Kryvytskyi will go too!".
Answering journalists' questions, Volodymyr Lytvyniuk expressed his opinion on many problems of city life, while noting that his team has a comprehensive program for the development of the city and the territorial community.
In particular, regarding work in the city council, he said: "Over two convocations I have seen that this system, unfortunately, is non-transparent and the community does not have sufficient control over the actions of the authorities. I became convinced of this while working first in the commission on observance of human rights, legality and publicity, and later in the commission on land issues... The structure of deputy commissions must be changed. Only then can everything be done transparently and openly. We often complain about our laws. In fact, our laws are excellent. It is just that there are many schemers. And they work in power so "professionally" that even fiscal bodies cannot always "dig something up". This is already "higher pilotage", when between the laws they find such a gap through which one can seemingly legally carry out any lawlessness. It is time to change those who have spent many years learning to manipulate laws...".
The press conference was attended by People's Deputy of Ukraine Yevhen Kyrylchuk, the first number on the "Batkivshchyna" list for deputies of the regional council, head of the Kivertsi District State Administration Anatolii Hrytsiuk, and head of the Lutsk city organization "Batkivshchyna" Oleksandr Viktorov.