Local authorities prohibit Polish hauliers from blocking border in Dorohusk

The head of Poland’s Dorohusk municipality has refused to allow truck drivers to organise a new protest, which had been due to begin on 18 December, on the access road to the border with Ukraine.

Source: European Pravda, citing RMF24

Details: The protesters do not agree with the decision that Wojciech Sawa, Head of the Dorohusk municipality, made on Monday to withdraw permission to hold the protest.

They had applied for permission to hold another protest, which would have started next Monday.

The new protest would have been held in the same way as the previous one.

However, Dorohusk municipality did not agree to this.

The hauliers have announced that they will be filing a complaint with the court, and tomorrow they will submit new applications to hold protests on several sites.

The legislative basis on which Wojciech Sawa relied in revoking permission for the truck drivers to protest on the access road to the border crossing with Ukraine was the significant threat to property – specifically financial losses for businesses.

"The protest didn’t just affect drivers. Entrepreneurs, workers and other social groups who were left without work all lose money. That’s the prevailing factor," Sawa said.

After the decision was verbally announced, the protesters left the road and unblocked the traffic. They have seven days to appeal against Sawa’s decision.

Background:

• Earlier, it was reported that since Wednesday afternoon, traffic at the Dorohusk-Yahodyn checkpoint between Ukraine and Poland has been completely unhindered; the Polish side predicts that all the trucks in the queue will have been allowed to cross over to Ukraine in about 30 hours.
• The group of Polish truck drivers had been blocking the movement of goods on the Ukrainian border since 6 November.
• Slovak hauliers recently joined them.On 11 December, Wojciech Sawa, head of the Dorohusk municipality, decided to disperse the hauliers’ protest, and traffic through that checkpoint resumed. 

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