Taxi drivers to hold action after Pope’s visit (video)
Drivers’ Protection League protests against Yandex company entering into taxi service market. The vehicles of all the local taxi drivers undergo mandatory licensing, which will not operate in case of foreign company. The League demands so that Yandex also undergo licensing. They are sure that the state has its interest in this issue, if it allows the foreign company to enter the field. “If Yandex is allowed to enter Armenia, it means that bribe was taken for it. Nothing happens in our country without it,” noted member of the League Poghos Oghlukyan. In reply to the question who had taken bribe, he noted that the Ministry of Transport and Communication. He highlighted that at present taxi drivers don’t earn well, instead of that they make a number of payments. “One day someone said that taxi driver earns AMD 25000 in a day. I don’t know where that dream comes from. I think in that case even today’s ministers will drive a taxi.” “Whether it is gg or Yandex, dear Government, first you should pay for all the harm you have done to us. How much money has been taken from the World Bank in order to remove medical examination, technical examination, for violating the law,” said Chairman of the Drivers’ Protection League Tigran Hovhannisyan. Touching upon the foreign company, he noted, “We are angry about monopolization of Yandex. It will lie to the people that it is 200 drams, then it will become 1000 drams. It wanted to buy gg, but gg refused, at present it is taking revenge by entering into market with low prices.” The representatives of the Drivers’ Protection League together with taxi drivers are going to stage an action after Pope’s visit to Armenia.
