Lukashenka Has No Intention Of Abandoning Idiotic Idea
15- 29.03.2025, 19:40
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The faces of the government members read: “He's so annoying”.
Due to Lukashenka's rantings, the meeting on improving the efficiency of control and oversight activities that took place on Friday, March 28, ended in nothing. Three indicative moments can be highlighted from the event.
First, Aliaksandr Lukashenka criticized the proposal of the new Prime Minister of the country Aliaksandr Turchyn to reduce the list of goods subject to price regulation. Shortly before this, economist Siarhei Chaly praised the official for a “subtle bureaucratic move”: “Since the idiotic idea arose on the basis of a social survey, let's end it with a social survey.”
However, Lukashenka does not intend to simply abandon the “idiotic idea”:
“The new prime minister is starting to stir up old stuff: why are we bothering about it, let’s cut the controlled goods by half or a third, let them increase the price themselves as they wish, but these socially significant goods are important. And who said that they are socially significant?”
Turchyn, like any official in a new high-ranking position, still needs to learn that the main thing is “not to stick your neck out,” and initiative under Lukashenka is punishable.
Secondly, the examples given by the ruler in defense of his idea were below the level of criticism.
“Let’s say that a car has ceased to be socially significant for us. Or is it socially significant? Or a golden ring?” Lukashenka flashed an idea.
The participants of the meeting were probably surprised: the ruler is ready to classify golden rings with milk and bread?
Lukashenka went further and turned the event into a farce, asking journalist Alena Syrova, who was present, about buying a golden ring when she got married. The business meeting took on new colors.
Thirdly, Lukashenka criticized... his own proposal.
After reading the paper, which expressed the idea of introducing a ban on random inspections of bona fide entities more often than once every 5 years, the ruler was indignant:
“A question comes right away: why in 5 years, and not in 2 or 3 years, not in 10 years? What is bona fide?.. I don’t know the concept of bona fide.”
We will never know what the authors of the report felt at that moment. But we can assume that some of them had their eyes popping out of their heads. Because they simply put Lukashenka’s own proposal in writing.
Meanwhile, just over a month ago the ruler said:
“Regarding these and other checks. Let's think about making a list of decent businessmen. Honest ones. Let's make it and publish it. Two more people have appeared — we'll add them. But we'll give the order to the State Control Committee and so on, so that they come to you, inquire, and even the tax authorities, once every three years.”
It is not surprising that with such rantings and contradictions on Lukashenka's part, the meeting ended in nothing: the ruler sent the draft decree on control and supervisory activities back for revision.
Of course, it is impossible to say with certainty, but it seemed that on Friday even the faces of the super-loyal members of the government read: “How annoying he is.”
Mark Dzyuba, Solidarity
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