entities in The sector to alert the minister Chacón “play a lot” because they are in full sales campaign for Christmas

Claiming an effort to establish dialogue and “peace of mind” policy

The Catalan trade has alerted the Government and the other Administrations of the damage that could cause to the sector on 21 December, the day on which it is planned the celebration of the Council of Ministers in Barcelona, the “peace of mind” the social is not outside the tonic major of the day. The merchants of Barcelona warn of four days of Christmas day any mobility problems or incidents that may be recorded in the city would be calamitous for the main sales campaign of the year.

the entities of The trade have made a joint statement after submit on Tuesday a letter to the secretary of the Company, Àngels Chacón, from the Catalan administration is an appeal to calm, “because we are in full Christmas campaign and we play a lot”. The industry calls for the retention of “normal social and institutional, to ensure economic development and a positive activity in full Christmas campaign”.

The response of the Government, through the minister Chacón, has been to remember the bet that the Executive Catalan has always done of Catalan trade and make a call to the demonstrations, in case of that, “be peaceful”. However, the councillor has asked if it would save problems or incidents, if the meeting of the Council of Ministers is not to be held in Barcelona.In statements to the press, Chacon has said that it is clear that “have every right” to come to Barcelona, but the question that has been done is “what the day 21 of this Council of Ministers here, why in these times and in this context.

The associations of traders and of the employers ‘ association Pimec Comerç, have insisted on the need to reign an atmosphere of “calm and normal social and institutional”.

The establishments of Barcelona has suffered in the last two years the effects of the various episodes with incidents that occurred in the wake of the protests linked to political events. Weary of sharing their streets with the manifestations of a political character before, but especially after the voting for the October 1, 2017, especially on the day of the so-called ‘unemployment in russia’ the 3 of October of last year, and also coinciding with the shutdown of almost a week of taxi drivers in the city centre of Barcelona, the traders have already made an appeal to Administrations, who recalled that daily sales fell 30% due to the problems of consumers to access the stores.

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