On June 16, a press conference of the "Batkivshchyna" party faction in the city council was held at the "Lutsk is European" press club, at which the implementation of the Government's "Towards the People" program at the local level was announced, – reported the own correspondent of the Western Information Corporation.
The faction leader, deputy of the Lutsk City Council Volodymyr Lytvyniuk, named the main task of the new faction as "the implementation of the Government's 'Towards the People' program at the local level" and the development of investment activity in the regional center. Regarding the reasons for the program's slowness, he cited "hidden and opaque resistance by officials at the regional and local levels." The faction includes 9 deputies, of whom 3 are party members and 4 are heads of permanent council commissions. They will cooperate with everyone, but more closely with the "Our Ukraine" deputy faction and the "Lutsk is European" faction.
The head of the city organization of the "Batkivshchyna" party, Oleksandr Viktorov, assured that before each session of the city council, joint meetings of the party bureau and the faction will be held, where joint actions and disputed issues will be coordinated. He doubts Yulia Tymoshenko's resignation from the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine, and also reported on the restoration of the website and the creation of a newspaper of the city organization of the "Batkivshchyna" All-Ukrainian Union.