Speaking with a report on the work of the regional committee over the past year and the tasks for the 2006 elections, the secretary of the regional committee of the SDPU(O), Oleksiy Shumyk, noted that the Volyn regional organization of the SDPU(O) today is qualitatively different from the one it was a year ago.

"During 2005, 385 people left the regional party organization — according to submitted applications, 240 were expelled from the party. At the same time, already under opposition conditions, the ranks of the regional party organization were joined by 169 persons," emphasized Oleksiy Shumyk.

"As a result of the work carried out, we have re-elected about 60% of the secretaries of city and district party organizations. I can state with full responsibility: the regional organization of the SDPU(O) has come into being, it is a real and effective political structure in the region," added the committee secretary.

According to other speakers, the organization largely owes the establishment of normal work to the new head of the regional committee, who is "accessible for communication to every party member and media representatives." "If the previous secretary of the regional committee, Anton Kryvytskyi, positioned himself more as the Lutsk city mayor and was more of an underground politician, then today we have a public leader," believe representatives of the district committees.

The delegates recognized the work of the regional committee during the reporting period as satisfactory. The conference resolution speaks of the need to direct all activity toward active preparation for the elections, namely: "further dissemination of social-democratic ideas among various social strata of the population and growth of party ranks so that in the March elections the regional party organization gains no less than 4% of voters' votes."

The head of the Lokachi district committee of the SDPU(O), the settlement head of Lokachi Vasyl Prytula, believes that the party will be able to overcome the barrier not through mass actions, but "through painstaking work with the grassroots, through individual work with people — by the power of persuasion, support and real assistance to its potential supporters."