On August 26, during a press conference, the 2nd secretary of the Lutsk city organization of the SPU, deputy of the Lutsk city council Serhiy Kichiy stated that a faction of the SPU will appear in the city council: "Working in the format of two factions – NSNU and BYuT – is no longer effective."\n\nCurrently there are two socialist deputies in the city council. According to Serhiy Kichiy, several more deputies may adopt socialist positions. He is not afraid that "old nomenklatura figures" will join the faction, since every deputy must join the SPU.\n\nThe socialists will not build their election campaign on destructiveness. Regarding the election team, the deputy said that all lists to the oblast, district, city, and village councils will be approved at the respective party conferences in two months.\n\n***\n\n"NSNU, unfortunately, is turning into a copy of the former pro-government bloc – a sort of 'For YeDU – 2'," stated the 2nd secretary of the Lutsk city organization of the SPU, Serhiy Kichiy, on August 26 during a press conference. He noted that Volyn socialists will go to the local elections independently and will not bloc with the "pro-presidential" party.\n\nAmong possible allies for the local councils, the socialists see human rights organizations and organizations of Afghan war veterans, and manufacturing entrepreneurs. Among political allies, cooperation with the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc is possible. In particular, Serhiy Kichiy emphasized that if the coalition of VO "Batkivshchyna"–URP "Sobor" is preserved, the SPU may well join it at the local level.