A group of traders on February 27 picketed the Parliament Building. Protesters said in the conditions in which they work now, they cannot use cash registers and ask that this obligation should be annulled, IPN reports.

The group of protesters chanted “No cash registers”. They demanded that the obligation to use cash registers should be excluded from the legislation and, eventually, replaced with a particular tax that they are ready to pay.

A protester said she sells meat at the Central Market of Chisinau and cannot use the cash register there, also because the prices oscillate at the market. “We do not demand living conditions, but ask the authorities not to impose this condition on us. It is impossible to work with a cash register on an area of one square meter. We do not have stable prices. The people negotiate prices at the market as there is competition. It is not like in store,” said the woman.

The traders said it seems to them that the authorities decided to recover the US$1 billion stolen from the banking system by imposing fines. If officials visited them to see how they work, they would probably understand them and would create conditions for them.