Self-Defense and League of Polish Families want to ban Sunday trading

The deputies of Self-Defense hope that the Sejm will pass a bill introducing the ban within three months. According to the draft bill submitted by Self-Defense, the ban would affect only large stores which employ more than five people. The draft is to limit the development of supermarkets with an area exceeding 400 square meters. It will be impossible to open such stores in towns with a population less than 15,000, while supermarkets with an area of over 600 square meters will be banned from cities with a population less than 50,000. "It is all now in the hands of Law and Justice," stated the Self-Defense leader Andrzej Lepper. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.1; Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, B1) E.B.