The Government Addressing the Open Market Sellers After the Elections

The dispute between the old and new market sellers has been renewed. The local government decided to close down the so-called old market after the new trade center was built.
The topic of the old market got forgotten during the pre-election period. As they say, the local government didn’t care for unnecessary headache.

The new and old market sellers go to Ozurgeti Municipality Sakrebulo once in two days. Both sides are asking to render their request. “New people” are asking for stop of the trade in the old market, “the old people” are asking for keeping the usual regime.

As the head of the Ozurgeti Municipality Sakrebulo Aleko Mameishvili said, he asked the Ozurgeti Municipality local government to legally determine the concrete open market places, rules and the forms of its usage in 10 days and present the information to Sakrebulo.

According to him, the old market sellers belong to the category of the open market sellers at present.

As the assistant of the Ozurgeti Municipality Governor Mikheil Gogotishvili says, the resolution enacted by the former local government should be fulfilled by the Service of Supervision.

The Supervision Service states, that they warned the market sellers numerous times, since they were in the illegal possession of the territory, consequently conducting illegal trade.

“The functioning of the old market has been renewed, the prohibition concerns only the agricultural products,” – states the Supervision Service. Though, they can’t say concretely why they prohibited precisely the trade on the agricultural products, when the same  products are under the usual trade in the new market and different trade centers.