The election race did not affect the implementation of the Volyn budget. According to daily monitoring data, in terms of fulfilling budget revenue targets, Volyn ranked first in Ukraine at the time of the elections. These data were made public during a meeting of the Lutsk Press Club of Reforms on April 17. This was reported to ZIK by press club coordinator Bohdana Stelmakh. "if normal work was established in 2005, it produced its results in 2006 as well," believes Vasyl Hrom, head of the main financial department of the Volyn Regional State Administration. The Volyn budget in the first quarter was implemented at 105.3% (13.5 million). As of today, all expenditures have been financed, even part of capital expenditures, wages and energy carriers have been fully paid, and expenditures in the agro-industrial complex have been financed 17 times. The head of the State Tax Administration in Volyn Oblast, Mykhailo Lemishchak, emphasized that the growth rates of filling the revenue part of the budget with taxes and fees outpace the growth rates of production volumes. The head of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine, Oleksandr Kireiev, while in Volyn on March 27, 2006, noted that Volyn, in terms of fulfilling the budget revenue target, according to daily monitoring data, as of 27.03.2006 ranked first in Ukraine. The head of the main department of economy of the Regional State Administration, Volodymyr Mahera, added that in the first quarter of the year most planned indicators were exceeded. In particular, revenues in industry increased by 40.7%, in the woodworking and pulp and paper sector by 86.4%, and in automotive manufacturing by 90%. The growth of gross agricultural output is 11.7%, whereas for the entire previous year it was only 0.1%. Over three months of the current year, 5.6 million dollars were attracted into the region's economy.