Lukashenko instructs to draw up clear guidelines for Belarusian People’s Congress delegates
Belarusian President, Chairman of the Belarusian People's Congress Aleksandr Lukashenko has instructed to formulate clear guidelines for the delegates of the Belarusian People's Congress without overlapping of activities and substitution of functions, Head of the Belarus President Administration Dmitry Krutoi told the media following the first meeting of the Presidium of the Belarusian People's Congress on 19 November, BelTA has learned.
“As for interaction between the delegates of the Belarusian People's Congress and the authorities, the president made a number of comments. In no case should there be any overlapping of activities and substitution of the existing structures, taking into account that the entire vertical of power is fully built today,” the head of the Belarus President Administration said. “We have 15 people in the Presidium of the Belarusian People’s Congress. The Secretariat of the Belarusian People’s Congress has 10 people. That means that 25 people should accumulate the most important issues of today.
“The role of the Presidium in the current realities and in the current hierarchy of our power is to prepare the most conceptual issues related to the country’s development in the economic, military and political, information sectors for their consideration directly at the Belarusian People’s Congress,” Dmitry Krutoi said.
According to him, the president asked not to overdo with meetings of the Presidium, not to confuse the authorities in terms of duplication or substitution of some matters. "We need to build a clear, understandable system, when delegates will choose the most important, principled and conceptual issues out from a large host of issues raised by our citizens; consider them at the regional level and then submit them through the Secretariat and members of the Bureau directly to the Presidium and, when approved, to the Belarusian People’s Congress," the head of the administration said.
He clarified that this is a general structure. Given that only the first meeting took place, Aleksandr Lukashenko instructed to finalize this system without bureaucracy and additional unnecessary superstructures in the form of commissions or advisory bodies.
Dmitry Krutoi suggests that the next meeting of the Presidium of the Belarusian People’s Congress is likely to be held in the first quarter of 2025.
