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. In it, he asks that the commission's decision be recognized as unlawful, and the actions of the commission secretary as not complying with legal requirements and violating the rights and legitimate interests of the subject of electoral law. In addition, he demands that the Lutsk mayoral elections be declared invalid, as well as that repeat elections be held.
On April 6, a statement from Volodymyr Lytvyniuk with the relevant demands was received by the territorial election commission, but it was considered only on April 12 and was left without satisfaction without any reasoning. According to current legislation, a decision of the city territorial election commission must be challenged in court within a two-day period, which was done today.
The day before, another mayoral candidate, Hennadii Kozhevnikov, was refused consideration by the court of his challenge to the territorial election commission's decision, since the lawsuit reached the court after the deadline established by law.
On April 14, candidate for the position of Lutsk city mayor Volodymyr Lytvyniuk held a final conference on the elections, at which he stated: "The Kryvytskyi era is over. At my press conference back on January 22, I asserted: Kuchma left, Kryvytskyi will leave too. Kuchma left – that is a historical fact. Kryvytskyi left – that is also a historical fact. We achieved this, we changed the government in the city of Lutsk, and that is true. The government has been changed as of today."
Regarding court lawsuits during the election campaign, Volodymyr Lytvyniuk gave the following comment: "I said that in my election campaign I would be guided only by law. Everyone must be equal before the law. During the election campaign, some contenders tried to violate the election law. Therefore we tried to bring the actions of the contenders into compliance with the law. We did not fight against opponents, but induced them to act in accordance with the law. That is what we did during the election race.
We tried to bring Mr. Kryvytskyi and Mr. Shyba to order. And our last point is for the court to consider the issue of the compliance of the territorial election commission's activity with the law. And we did this today, and the result will come later."
During the press conference, Volodymyr Lytvyniuk stated: "After the elections, very many people approach me and ask whether I will go into the shadows, whether I will stop my public activity. I am not going into the shadows, I am not leaving politics. We will not go underground. Together with my team I will create a public association that will work powerfully and monitor the activity of the newly elected government."
Volodymyr Lytvyniuk added: "I will quote People's Deputy Yevhen Kyrylchuk, who said in one interview: 'In local councils, in Lutsk and the region, there are very many medics and pedagogues, and now there will be none of them.' Yes, there will be none; there will be directors and big entrepreneurs, if you look at the list of deputies.
Therefore, in our public organization there will be those activists, education workers, healthcare workers, including young people, the intelligentsia and politicians, who will actively work and monitor the activity of the government, not only criticize but also help it in its work.
They will monitor not only the activity of the local government, but also the actions of people's deputies in the Verkhovna Rada elected from Volyn. Whether they will receive new apartments in Kyiv, some already have their third one; how they fulfill the instructions that the community gave them, and so on."