Merchants and street vendors of El Rastro de Madrid have concentrated, for the fifth consecutive Sunday, in the Plaza de Cascorro where they have coll
Merchants and street vendors of El Rastro de Madrid have concentrated, for the fifth consecutive Sunday, in the Plaza de Cascorro where they have collected signatures of adhesion to their cause and have demanded the installation of 50 percent of the stalls alternately every weekend and in their original locations. The association 'El Rastro punto es' has called the protest that occurs after a letter was sent to the Mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and to the spokesmen of the municipal groups with representation in the City Council (Cs, PSOE, More Madrid and Vox) in which they assured that it is "incomprehensible" not to be able to reopen in the same space and that "boxing them" does not respond to sanitary reasons. "They make us unacceptable proposals for the group because accepting them would mean the death of the Historic Trail," said Gonzalo, who also added that the City Council is "playing" with their jobs and with those of the businesses in the area, who also "They are suffering from this situation." In addition, it has transmitted the will of the association to hold a "face-to-face meeting" with those responsible for the Consistory and with the councilor of the Centro district, José Fernández, who has only attended to them electronically, something that they consider "is not received "if you want to deal with" these very serious issues ". Another aspect that the Rastro merchants "do not understand" is why in other spaces and shopping centers the capacity can be up to 8,000 people, and instead in the traditional market they are "imposed" on a maximum of 3,500 people when They consider it "more spacious and outdoors". For his part, Almeida said that the City Council had made three proposals and the merchants "do not want to move away from the mark" but "Community health regulations prevent this" and "health must be preserved and limits must be limited agglomerations if possible. " However, for merchants, this proposal "relocates all holders of th
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