Over 100 vendors gathered outside the Chisinau City Hall on Tuesday to protest the mayoral ordinance that forbids them to engage in trade on the streets surrounding the Central Market, Info-Prim Neo reports. “We want to work!”, “We don't want to seek jobs abroad!”, chanted the disgruntled retailers. Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca's reply was categorical: the situation got out of control and the situation where the streets around the Central Market are swarming with vendors, clogging passenger and vehicle traffic, can no longer be tolerated. “If we didn't adopt this measure, the streets Columna, Bulgara, Armeneasca, Tighina and Alexandru cel Bun would have become a zone of thriving unauthorized trade right in the middle of the city. What do you think about the idea of concentrating all the markets of the city and make a mega-market right in the heart of Chisinau so that everyone is pleased? But this is unacceptable. There is the Central Market and all the vending must take place within its capacity”, Chirtoaca stated at the City Hall's meeting. Starting September 3, retail trade in industrial food and agricultural products at stalls and on the ground around the Central Market in Chisinau is forbidden under a mayoral ordinance.