Lukashenko: Government should be guided by decisions taken by people

The formation of the Belarusian People’s Congress and amendments to the electoral legislation were top on the agenda of the meeting hosted by Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko on 20 October, BelTA has learned.

The event was attended by representatives of the legislative, judicial, executive branches of power, including the speakers of both houses of parliament, chairs of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court, executive committees of regions and the city of Minsk, as well as the prime minister, the heads of the Belarus President Administration, the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus, the Central Election Commission, the National Center of Legislation and Legal Research, and the national public association Belaya Rus.

At the beginning of the meeting the president touched upon two other important issues that are extremely relevant for society now. One of them is harvesting. The head of state addressed the governors and once again demanded good pace and efficiency in order to complete agricultural works in time. The second matter concerned the moratorium on price rises that had recently been introduced. Aleksandr Lukashenko once again clarified his position on this issue, emphasizing that it is not about a total freeze of prices for all goods and services, but about establishing an effective system of control over pricing in order to prevent the unreasonable rise in prices that someone uses to line their pockets.