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On April 4, a press conference was held by the leaders of the Volyn Oblast organization of the "Reforms and Order" party, the topic of which was summarizing and analyzing the local elections and outlining the party's activity plans.
The collective statement of four candidates for the position of Lutsk city mayor regarding the recognition of the mayoral elections as invalid has been withdrawn by the plaintiffs for revision. The court granted the corresponding motion of the plaintiffs and today, April 4, left the lawsuit without consideration.
Deputies did not support any resolution on recounting votes in the parliamentary elections.
On April 2, the Lutsk city territorial election commission established the results of the elections of deputies of the Lutsk city council. The new city hall will be controlled by the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, which, under the representation quota, receives 23 deputy mandates out of 45.
The regional election commission for the elections of deputies to the Volyn Oblast Council at its evening session on March 31 established the preliminary results of the elections of deputies to the regional council of the fifth convocation.
The number of political parties and blocs possessing facts of falsifications during the vote count in the elections to the Verkhovna Rada and local councils grows every day. One of the first to join the ranks of the mentioned political forces was the People's Bloc of Lytvyn.
On April 2, a rally of representatives of political parties and blocs and candidates for the post of Lutsk city mayor took place on Theater Square in Lutsk. The speakers expressed protest against election falsification and demanded a recount of votes or the holding of repeat elections for city mayor.
Six out of fourteen candidates for the position of Lutsk city mayor (Volodymyr Lytvyniuk, Hennadii Kozhevnikov, Oleksandr Hil, Oleh Boiko, Oleksandr Hlavatskyi, Anton Kryvytskyi) have adopted an address to Lutsk residents in which they call for support of free choice.
On March 30, the candidate for the position of mayor of Lutsk, nominated by the city inter-party conference of BYuT, Volodymyr Lytvyniuk, submitted an application to the city territorial election commission in which he demands that the mayoral election be recognized as invalid and that a repeat vote be held.
Head of the Lutsk city territorial election commission Svitlana Huschenko at around 1:00 on March 30 commented on the situation that had developed with the elections of the mayor of Lutsk. "We do indeed have preliminary voting results. But due to numerous complaints, we cannot make them public...