Entrepreneurs protesting, but nobody hears them (Photo)

1000 of individual entrepreneurs took part in a meeting held in Park of Peoples’ Friendship in Minsk on November, 19.

The action was organised by the republican civil association “Perspektiva” and permitted by the city authorities. Besides the entrepreneurs, who have their business in Minsk, dwellers of Brest, Mahilou, Vitebsk, Gomel, Grodna, Slonim and other cities took part in the event.

Opening the meeting, Anatol Shumchanka, head of RCA, said the main problem for the entrepreneurs was to attain that the item 1.1 of the decree №760 on employment only close relatives for work, would be cancelled, BelaPAN reports.

“We have chosen a civilised way, we sent letters to the legislative organs asking to initiate the consideration of the accepted norm in the Constitutional Court. After that we wrote letters to PM Sidorski and the Supreme Court, be we received refusals,” A. Shumchanka said.

According to the head of “Perspektiva”, only 3-5 per cent from more than 200.000 of entrepreneurs re-registered as private unitary enterprises. “It means the government has failed. Someone from the officials must be responsible for any failure. They don’t hear us or don’t want to hear,” A. Shumchanka said.

The meeting participants had posters with slogans “Demand law on polygamy”, “Looking for husband. Advantage to those who have many children after 18”, “Help wanted. Adoption guaranteed”, “No relatives. Stall for sale” as well as banners with Lukashenka’s quotations: “Not to worsen the labour conditions for individual entrepreneurs and create stable fiscal conditions for development of small business in the Republic of Belarus”, “Both entrepreneurs and their employees shouldn’t suffer.”

The meeting of entrepreneurs was watched by representatives of Minsk authorities and police.

It should be reminded that entrepreneurs have also sent an appeal for holding a meeting of protest on Kastrychnitskaya (October) Square on December, 10.