After being expelled from the ranks of the SDPU(o), Lutsk mayor Anton Kryvytskyi was often met with skeptical remarks regarding the prospects of the Volyn regional organization of this party. Recall that the mayor of the Volyn capital was the leader of the united Social Democrats in the region. As Liudmyla Slesarchuk, deputy secretary of the regional committee of the SDPU(o), noted, from October of last year to February of this year in Volyn, 184 people left the ranks of this party after writing corresponding statements (the regional party organization currently has 5,712 members). During the thirteenth regional conference, Volyn united Social Democrats were deciding how to act in the current conditions — "to be in power, in opposition, or in the swamp." They settled on classical opposition. Despite this, Oleksandr Borovyk, secretary of the Kivertsi district committee of the SDPU(o), expressed confidence: "We have every reason to look to the future with optimism." And Serhii Kuzmenko, secretary of the Lutsk city committee, even managed to see "opportunities to come to power through opposition." And Yurii Zavhorodnii, deputy chairman, chairman of the Political Executive Committee of the SDPU(o), recent first deputy head of the Administration of the President of Ukraine, analyzing the consequences of the recent election campaign, tried to answer the sacramental question of what to do next. "We do not want to be enemies of the authorities. We are in opposition," he noted (the party members of Viktor Medvedchuk are to finally determine their position during their nineteenth congress, planned for March 12 (however, a change of this date is possible). The Kyiv resident, on the instructions of the chief united Social Democrat, proposed electing Oleksii Shumyk as secretary of the Volyn regional committee of the SDPU(o), who after Anton Kryvytskyi's expulsion from the party had been performing these duties. This proposal was unanimously supported by the conference delegates. Oleksii Shumyk, reflecting on the leadership of the Volyn Regional State Administration, was maximally frank: "After the Hero of Ukraine, whoever heads the authorities in Volyn can sit quietly for a year and do nothing." Speaking exclusively in a positive vein about Volodymyr Bondar, he even resorted to a maxim: "Most likely, he has far more patriotism and professionalism than those who previously headed the authorities." The main feature of the new tactics of the Volyn organization of the SDPU(o) should be a laconic algorithm defined by its leader: "We will go to the people."