There will be no more trading Sundays yet? Petru pointed out the culprit

Next year will be 9 years since the introduction of the Act on Sunday Trading Restrictions. In the initial period – from March to December 2018 – stores were open on the first and last Sunday of the month, in 2019 only on the last. In the years 2020-2024, there were seven trading Sundays a year. We are talking about the last Sunday of January, April, June and August, as well as the Sunday before Easter and two Sundays before Christmas. Last year, there was a change that included the introduction of an additional shopping Sunday at the beginning of December in exchange for a free Christmas Eve.

After the change of government in 2023, it seemed that the liberalization of the law on the ban on trading on the last day of the week was a matter of time. Most of the groups that make up the current coalition announced during the campaign that regulations in this area would be loosened to a greater or lesser extent. Meanwhile, in less than three years, not much has happened in this matter.

“The left is blocking.” Petru on the law liberalizing the rules of Sunday trading

For over two years, a project sponsored by MP Ryszard Petru has been in the Sejm, which envisages a return to the solutions from the first period of the Act’s operation, i.e. the introduction of two shopping Sundays a month. However, it is stuck in the parliamentary social and family policy committee, which is headed by the Left. And it is this coalition grouping that Petru blames for the lack of a breakthrough in this matter. – The left is blocking this bill, which is currently in the social policy committee and cannot leave it – Petru said in today’s interview for Radio Zet.

Later in the conversation, the politician said that it is worth considering transferring the decision on this matter to the local government level. – I would prefer to delegate it regionally, i.e. to local governments, voivodeships, or at least at the poviat level to decide whether Sunday trading should apply. – suggested the MP.

Petru believes that such a solution could be a good start in tourist destinations.

Meanwhile, as a survey conducted by SW Research for “Wprost” conducted just before the holidays shows, in Poland there are fewer supporters of lifting the ban on Sunday trading. Less than 44 percent want it. Poles, while 41.3 percent is in favor of maintaining the current regulations, and 14.8 percent respondents have no opinion on this matter. Just two years ago, over 46 percent wanted the ban to be abolished. respondents, and 36 percent was of the opposite opinion.

The next trading Sunday will fall on August 30, i.e. next Sunday. We’ll have to wait until December for the next one.