On October 22, the Lutsk City and District Court granted the complaint of the authorized representative of the candidate for the post of President of Ukraine Yushchenko V.A., Banada Volodymyr Vyacheslavovych. \nThe complaint was filed in connection with the unlawful actions of the Lutsk city mayor Anton Fedorovych Kryvytskyi, who, as an official of a local self-government body, on October 15 of this year on the Kyiv Maidan of the regional center campaigned for the candidate for President of Ukraine Yanukovych V.F., thereby violating clause 2 of part 1 of Article 64 of the Law of Ukraine "On Elections of the President of Ukraine". \nOn the first day of consideration of the complaint, the representative of the subject of the appeal, Viktor Kuchma, filed a challenge to the presiding judge, justifying it by the pressure of the authority of experienced court staff who on October 1 had granted a similar complaint by Mr. Banada regarding the actions of A. Kryvytskyi, on young judges. When the challenge was rejected, Kuchma stated that on October 15, 2004, on the Kyiv Maidan, Kryvytskyi spoke as a citizen of Ukraine, expressed his opinion about the business qualities of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yanukovych V., which is not prohibited by Article 58 of the Law of Ukraine "On Elections of the President of Ukraine", and A. Kryvytskyi's speech was not campaigning. \nBanada V.V. invited two witnesses to participate who took direct part in the rally. They testified that the actions of the mayor of Lutsk on October 15 from 17:00 to 17:30 correspond to those presented in the complaint. In addition to the newspaper "Volyn" of 19.10.04, in which an article entitled "Rally in support of Viktor Yanukovych" was printed on the second page, the complainant added to the case materials an article from the newspaper "Lutskyi Zamok" of 21.10.04 entitled "On the Kyiv Maidan they supported Yanukovych". These two articles confirmed the actions of A.F. Kryvytskyi. \nHaving heard the explanations of the participants in the process, the testimony of witnesses, and having examined the case materials, the court came to the conclusion that the complaint is subject to satisfaction. \n \nOksana Prokopchuk \n \nLinks on the topic: \nThe court recognized that the Lutsk city mayor violated election legislation by campaigning for Yanukovych \n \nThe mayor of Lutsk filed an appeal against the decision of the Lutsk City and District Court, which recognized his actions as unlawful