“Local councils have become hostages not only of the proportional election system, but also of the political consequences of such elections,” believes Oleksandr Martyniuk, head of the Volyn Oblast Organization of the RPR. “In particular, the uncertainty of relations between the main orange blocs – ‘Our Ukraine’ and the BYuT, and the autonomy of many regional political structures, do not make it possible to form effective models of local governance on the basis of the newly elected councils.” \nOleksandr Martyniuk suggests that differences in the structure of coalitions at the regional level may finally blur the ideological faces of the winning blocs. The business dominant of the newly elected self-government bodies is oriented toward forming a system of protection of interests and lobbying using influences at the government or parliamentary level. In conditions of an unpredictable future for these institutions of power, local elites do not find optimal formulas for themselves for the distribution of powers. The elections of heads of oblast and raion councils, the formation of executive bodies, the distribution of profile commissions – that is, all actions that must be taken at the first session meetings – are based on situational arguments and motivations, which, in turn, additionally destabilizes a situation already provoked by nationwide uncertainty. \n“The task of the governing bodies of ‘Our Ukraine’ and the BYuT,” Oleksandr Ivanovych is convinced, “is to give a clear signal to their regional structures regarding the configuration of power at all levels. Otherwise, it will be harder to fight the consequences of ‘coalition metamorphoses’ than to prevent their formation. And most importantly, the citizens who seek the complete conclusion of the elections and concrete actions on the part of the authorities will suffer from such a course of events. \n