The head of Volyn "Batkivshchyna" believes that the concepts "BYuT" and "Batkivshchyna-USDP" are equivalent. The Lutsk territorial election commission declared the mayoral elections valid

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. On the proposal of the commission secretary Olha Latsenko, the commission decided to "refuse to satisfy the application." "For" voted 9 members of the commission out of 10 present.

Volodymyr Lytvyniuk stated that he would challenge such a decision of the commission in court.

On the remaining items on the agenda, the commission was unable to make decisions because one of the members left the session, depriving it of a quorum.

On April 6, Volodymyr Lytvyniuk filed an application with the commission in which, due to inaccurate data in the ballots, he demanded that the elections be recognized as invalid. After reviewing the response, Volodymyr Lytvyniuk stated that he would send this "document" to the Central Headquarters of the BYuT with a request to provide a legal assessment of such an arbitrary interpretation of the officially approved attributes.

The head of the Volyn regional organization of the VO "Batkivshchyna" Viktor Oliinyk sent a letter to the Lutsk commission in which he claims that the concepts "BYuT" and "Batkivshchyna-USDP" are equivalent. Such was the response of the head of the party organization regarding the disappearance from the election ballot opposite the surname of the BYuT nominee Volodymyr Lytvyniuk of the phrase "Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc." Viktor Oliinyk had already sent a document of the following content to the commission on April 5: "In response to your letter No. 215 dated 05.04.2006, we inform you that according to the decision of the bloc council No. 42-01-0055a dated February 17, 2006, the full name of the bloc 'Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc' was established – election bloc of political parties 'All-Ukrainian Union "Batkivshchyna"', Ukrainian Social Democratic Party. At the same time, we note that the concepts 'Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc' and 'Election bloc of political parties "VO "Batkivshchyna"', Ukrainian Social Democratic Party' are equivalent and therefore the separate use of these concepts is entirely possible."