Ineffective implementation has troubled the government’s policy of moving on cart vendors from roadsides and bridges, according to Member of Parliament (MP) Maria Fernanda Lay.
MP Lay said in vendors returned to their original sites soon after being ordered to move on.
Vendors often blocked traffic in places such as Becora Bridge, she said.
She called for more effective implementation and said officials should regularly return to each site to move on offending vendors.
MP Lay said roadside vendors were often the cause of traffic incidents.
Commission F (for economy and development) member MP Josefa Alvares Pereira Soares said the government needed to execute the law consistently.
State Administration Minister Jorge da Costa Teme recognized that the interventions by the Public Order Directorate were optimal, which he said was caused by a lack of staff and transportation.
He said it was difficult to disseminate information to the mobile vendors.
Teme said the directorate had only one vehicle to control vendors in Dili.
When directorate staff were moving on vendors in Becora, Comoro vendors would emerge to sell their goods on the roadside, he said.
