As summer begins, illegal street commerce returns on agenda of Chisinau municipality
Market managers from Chisinau will again try to persuade street vendors to go to arranged marketplaces. General Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca warned at the last sitting of the City Hall that selling easily decaying products on streets in summer can result in grave consequences, Info-Prim Neo reports.
“It's more a mentality problem. People should realize that the easily decaying products shall be sold in authorized marketplaces. Time should pass for the things to change, as it happened in the West,” Dorin Chirtoaca said.
Deputy mayor Mihai Furtuna says in the capital's sectors, especially near markets, some vendors go on selling their goods on street. According to him, the sanctions that may be applied on those vendors include confiscating the sold products. However the method is not applied because of respect for vendors and hoping they will accept to go to marketplaces. The entitled bodies apply but fines and warnings, write minutes, but all those do not change things essentially.
Mihai Furtună also calls on buyers to discourage the development of the street commerce and not to buy the products sold by unauthorized vendors.
Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca says the attitude towards the street vendors should be civilized, but firm. “The police should humiliate those people or destroy their goods, kicking them with their feet, as has happened,” Dorin Chirtoaca said.
Vladimir Nirca, the head of the Direction responsible for the Commerce, says some vendors refuse to go to authorized marketplaces. Although now there are some 100 places available in markets, the merchants don't go there because they are asked to produce lab analyses and a series of documents issued by the mayor office of the locality they come from.
The Chisinau City Hall is pondering over a project to set up fairs in ever district of the capital to allow the merchants to sell their goods freer.
There are 41 markets in Chisinau, of which 21 sell food and agricultural produce.