In Volyn, the civic party "PORA" on October 13 began and continues to conduct, as part of an all-Ukrainian campaign, the collection of signatures for the repeal of the Law of Ukraine on granting local council deputies legal immunity. As of today, more than 5 thousand signatures have been collected in Lutsk alone. Not only active residents of Lutsk are participating in the event. Signature collection will also be conducted in the district centers of the region. Recall that on October 5, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko signed the Law "On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine 'On the Status of Local Council Deputies'" and submitted it to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine for approval or repeal.
\n \nThe campaign was preceded by a press conference held on October 10 of the current year in Kyiv at the UNIAN Information Agency, when deputies of the Lutsk, Lviv, and Cherkasy local councils addressed a statement to Viktor Yushchenko renouncing deputy immunity. According to the head of the Volyn regional organization of the civic party "PORA," Anton Sosnovskyi, a statement of analogous content was also received by the prosecutor of Lutsk. \n \nIn addition, an appeal was made public by deputies of the civic party "PORA" to deputies of city, village, settlement, district, and regional councils, which stated the following: "We, deputies of all levels, members of the civic party 'PORA,' cannot calmly wait for the Constitutional Court to announce its verdict. We cannot betray our voters' faith in justice. Therefore we appeal to all honest and decent deputies of local councils, as well as to deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, with a call to support our initiative and renounce deputy immunity by sending a corresponding statement to the President of Ukraine and the prosecutor."