TAXI DRIVERS PROTEST NEW PROPOSED LEGISLATION, RALLY IN GYUMRI

Tert.am
15:02 ~U 17.02.10

At 12 pm tomorrow, near Gyumri’s Mother Armenia memorial complex,
Shirak marz’s independent taxi drivers (those who are self-employed,
who are not employed by a taxi company) will be holding a rally,
in which Vanadzor’s taxi drivers will also be participating.

During a January 18 demonstration in which taxi drivers were protesting
RA legislation aimed at placing restirctions on the 824 independent
taxi drivers in Shirak marz (province), organizers gathered signatures
for an appeal directed at RA legistlators, executive bodies and local
authorities in Gyumri.

Responding to the appeal, the head of the Control Service of the
President of the Republic of Armenia, Hovhannes Hovsepyan, had
presented proposals to the taxi drivers to review the legislation –
the taxi drivers, however, responded by organizing tomorrow’s protest
in Gyumri.