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Today, during the second stage of the first session of the Lutsk City Council, the composition of deputy commissions was approved and deputy mayors were elected.
At the beginning of the session, the head of the Lutsk territorial election commission, Svitlana Huschenko, on behalf of the TEC, informed about the changes that had occurred in the composition of the deputies of the Lutsk City Council.
The first session of the Lutsk City Council, convened by the Lutsk City Territorial Election Commission, began its work with the official announcement of the election results for the Lutsk City Mayor and deputies of the Lutsk City Council.
On April 19, the Lutsk City and District Court denied candidate for mayor Volodymyr Lytvyniuk's lawsuit against the Territorial Election Commission seeking to declare unlawful the decision refusing to recognize the elections as invalid. The court issued a ruling that the lawsuit was unfounded.
“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.
On April 14, in Lutsk, as part of the western Ukrainian tour "Renewable Sources and Energy Conservation Will Stop Nuclear Energy Forever!", an action dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Chornobyl tragedy and aimed against the government's nuclear policy took place.
On April 14, candidate for the position of city mayor Volodymyr Lytvyniuk filed a lawsuit with the Lutsk City and District Court against the decision of the city territorial election commission.
On April 12, the Lutsk city territorial election commission considered the application of candidate for mayor Volodymyr Lytvyniuk regarding the recognition of the elections as invalid and the holding of repeat elections and left it without satisfaction.
Following the results of the 26 March elections, five political forces made it into the next Verkhovna Rada: the Party of Regions, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, the "Our Ukraine" Bloc, the Socialist Party and the Communist Party.
On April 6, the city council newspaper "Lutskyi Zamok" published the decision of the city territorial election commission regarding the election of the city mayor and city council deputies. The election commission resolved "to consider Bohdan Pavlovych Shyba elected as city mayor.