Cehegín Mayor Jose Soria, and the councilman of Commerce, Francisco in April, met with a representation of the hawkers and street traders where the market is currently installed, which in this day, have led out a protest and have agreed to study the proposals that they have been raised about the relocation of the weekly market.
The City Council has ensured that "no intention to relocate the market for safety reasons, as the current location makes it impossible for the passage of emergency vehicles through the streets where does the market and, recently, there was a fire at the fire trucks could not access, make it more comfortable, because the narrowness of the streets makes the movement of people, and stop harming the users of 121 parking spaces that Wednesdays can not enter or leave their vehicles " .
Moreover, he added that "there are over 250 requests for posts that want to enter, and the City wants to accommodate 40 or 50 more (currently 97) to provide better service and be able to accommodate many that are slated cehegineros waiting, which must try to help with the difficult economic situation we are facing. "
The City Council has explained that "we have already met on three occasions with representatives of the Association of Commerce and, presumably, the association of street vendors, and representatives of businesses in the area, and currently proposed alternatives are being studied , so we do not understand the protest this morning, as we had pledged not to move anything to have another meeting. even got engaged with representatives of the Association of Commerce to agree on the number of positions and types of the same as entering the new market. "
At the meeting this morning, in which sellers have asked that negotiations be made directly to them without intermediaries, has agreed to consider other potential sites and keep within about twenty days a new meeting.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín