During the campaign "A People's President for Ukraine!" as of December 10, over 104 thousand signatures had been collected in Volyn in favor of preserving the right to elect the President of Ukraine by popular vote. A quarter of them were collected in Lutsk, and the rest of the signatures came from the districts of Volyn. Over the past few weeks, enterprising young people in "Yes, Yushchenko!" capes in tents set up in crowded places of the oblast and district centers and through a "door-to-door" campaign collected signatures, informed the public about political events, and distributed the press. Understanding the threat of losing what may be the only mechanism of real influence on the authorities, citizens willingly signed the letters, and many of them expressed a desire to cooperate with the oblast representation of "Our Ukraine."
As the head of the "Our Ukraine" Bloc in Volyn Oblast, Volodymyr Bondar, reported, Volyn residents who for certain reasons have not yet signed for their constitutional right to elect a president continue to come to the oblast headquarters. Therefore, the collection of signatures will be continued. According to the people's deputy, such activity of the Volyn public testifies to "serious distrust of the existing authorities, to an increase in the political awareness of citizens, and growing concern about the further political development of the state."
At the same time, this campaign is perceived by the population as the only possible mechanism for expressing the position of the overwhelming majority of citizens on this issue. "And although voters have already lost faith in justice, democracy, and respect for the rights and freedoms of the average Ukrainian, the measure is assessed by Volyn residents as a good initiative of the bloc," believes Volodymyr Bondar.