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Councilor Juan Vicente Larrosa recalls that this sector brings together more than 1,500 families and that five years have passed since the adoption of the Regional Law, which already have adapted municipalities such as Cartagena and Molina

The Municipal Socialist Group, aware of the weight that the street selling sector has for the local economy, considers it "an unjustifiable neglect that we have an outdated ordinance that has not yet been adapted to the Regional Law of Ambulatory Sale or Non-Sedentary, approved in 2014, "explains the socialist councilor Juan Vicente Larrosa, who asks" how much time does the government team need, before the PP and now the PP and Cs, to update the ordinance because nothing more and nothing less than five years have passed. "

For the mayor, "the City Council of Murcia gives an image of tremendous apathy and abandonment, because being the largest town hall in the Region it seems that it has no interest in tidying up the weekly markets regulating the activity with a new ordinance adapted to today's requirements, "and adds that municipalities such as Cartagena and Molina de Segura" have done their homework, demonstrating their responsibility as a local administration. "

In the municipality of Murcia 52 public and several private markets are held, so Larrosa warns that the sector brings together a group of more than 1,500 families.

"We met with representatives of the vendors and they explained to us the daily reality they face, a reality that has many failures and irregularities that are necessary and urgently remedied," he explains.

Therefore, the councilor says that there are "many things to fix, because we have hundreds of people on the waiting list, when there are more than 400 free positions. Therefore, there are no appeals, when the decree establishes that it will be updated the waiting list every quarter and, of course, is broken. "

Another problem detected is that there are vendors that are installed without a fixed position so the City Council stops charging and, to top it off, there are no income collectors so that unfair competition is favored.

The councilor also points out that there are cases where a seller pays to settle in a market and puts in several, so he can pay a fifth of what he should.

To all this, it is necessary to add the malaise that is generated between the majority of the sellers that fulfill when this lack of control takes place, exacerbated because the markets are not indicated and when a position fails a mess is generated ".

The Law was passed in 2014 and gave a year for the adaptation of municipal ordinances but "we still have no news of at least one project or interest on the part of the government team, so we believe it is a priority to get to work, with the collective as knowledgeable and suffering of the existing deficiencies, for our part we will insist with a motion to the next Plenary. "

Source: PSOE Murcia