The regular regional party conference of the People's Democratic Party was held in a critical spirit. Both the higher party leadership and the leaders of the executive power in the region got "a roasting." \n \nOleksandr Klimovych, the head of the regional NDP organization, noted that the people's democrats would go into the upcoming elections with a clear conscience. There are no people in their ranks who have stained themselves. The proof of this is the trust of voters. In 1998, the party won 179 mandates in councils of various levels in the region; in 2002 — 331 mandates. In the 2006 elections, it plans to nominate more than 400 candidates for councils of all levels. \n \nAt the same time, the leader of Volyn's "Ndepists" subjected to well-founded criticism the actions of the higher party leadership, which rarely visits the regions and does not promote either itself or the party. In his opinion, which was supported by other speakers, the relationship between the center and the regions needs to be fundamentally revised. \n \nMany reproaches were also voiced against the regional executive power — for imperfect personnel policy and failure to honor agreements. Oleksandr Klimovych recalled how, even before the appointment of the governor, Volodymyr Bondar, Bohdan Shyba and Volodymyr Karpuk approached him and proposed signing an agreement on cooperation in the regional council. The parties agreed that such an agreement was a shared responsibility, and therefore a coordinated personnel policy. The agreement was signed, and on behalf of the factions "Our Ukraine," "Batkivshchyna" and NDP, a request was sent to Viktor Yushchenko to appoint Volodymyr Bondar as head of the regional state administration. \n \n— This is perhaps the only positive of this agreement, that already the next day Bondar became head of the regional state administration, — noted Fedir Koshel, the head of the NDP faction in the regional council. — And when we submitted our proposals regarding candidates for positions at various levels, they were initially taken into account only partially, and later violated. Today, practically none of the fundamental conditions of this agreement are being fulfilled by the authorities, and they have stopped listening to our opinion. \n \nThe people's democrats' complaints are caused not only by the authorities' personnel policy but also by certain other aspects of their actions. \n \n— I have learned that an instruction came from the state administration: to collect information about school principals and cultural workers, specifically which party they belong to, — stated Anatoliy Matviychuk, first deputy head of the regional organization and head of the Rozhyshche district NDP organization. — And at all levels the phrase is heard that administrative resources are not being used. The motives for such an instruction are unknown to me. And they are hard to understand. \n \nAfter heated discussions, the people's democrats came to the conclusion that they would go into the upcoming elections in a bloc that "does not join either the blue or the orange" but would represent a "democratic alternative." Having elected delegates to the regular NDP congress, which will be held on December 3, the conference unanimously recommended its leader Oleksandr Klimovych for the all-party list. At the same time, it was emphasized that Volyn residents reserve the right at the local level to form blocs even with those political forces with which the higher party leadership will not find common ground. \n \nOleksandr PYROZHYK