Former first deputy head of the Volyn Regional State Administration, candidate for the post of Lutsk city mayor Bohdan Shyba has been removed from registration due to numerous violations by him of election legislation in the part concerning the conduct of pre-election campaigning. The corresponding decision was made on March 13 by the city territorial election commission. This was reported by the Western Information Corporation's own correspondent.
The Lutsk city territorial election commission at its meeting on March 13 considered numerous complaints from authorized representatives of candidates for the post of city mayor regarding violations of election legislation by subjects of electoral law.
Almost all the complaints considered concerned pre-election campaigning on the part of the former first deputy head of the Volyn Regional State Administration, candidate for the post of Lutsk city mayor Bohdan Shyba.
Responding to opponents' accusations regarding his use of administrative resources, self-nominated candidate Bohdan Shyba was forced to admit that for addressed greetings to 70 thousand Lutsk women on the occasion of the March 8 holiday he used voter lists that had been provided by the district election commission to the authorized person from the "Our Ukraine" Bloc.
As a result of using these lists, greetings with wishes "May the festive mood never leave you for a minute..." were received by people who died 5-7 years ago, because of which numerous complaints from indignant relatives arrived at the TEC.
The TEC cancelled the registration of candidate Shyba B.P., taking into account repeated violations by him of election legislation in the part concerning the conduct of pre-election campaigning.
10 days ago, on March 3, candidate for the post of Lutsk city mayor Shyba B.P. had already received a written warning about his violation of election legislation.
A lawsuit has been filed against the actions of the candidate for the post of Lutsk city mayor, incumbent mayor Anton Kryvytskyi, in which the official is accused of using subordinate persons in his pre-election campaigning. This was reported to the Western Information Corporation on March 14 by the authorized person of the candidate for the post of city mayor from BYuT Volodymyr Lytvyniuk, Oleksandr Viktorov.
According to him, together with the lawsuit, a copy of a video tape was submitted to the Lutsk city-district court, which records how Anton Kryvytskyi's subordinates during working hours engage in pre-election campaigning in his favor.
The recording, according to the statement of Volodymyr Lytvyniuk's authorized person, was made legally during Anton Kryvytskyi's meeting with entrepreneurs of the Zavokzalny market on March 10, which lasted from 15:30 to 16:30 in the premises of the "Nyva" hotel complex.
When the gathering began, Volodymyr Lytvyniuk arrived at it with authorized persons, who recorded the fact of violation of election legislation.
The leader of "Batkivshchyna" is convinced that they have enough evidence and eyewitness testimony to prove the fact of the use of administrative resources by Anton Kryvytskyi.