About 200 sellers of flowers and secondhand mobile phones protested again in front of the Government Building, demanding that the authorities allow them to work under patent. They said they will stage protests weekly, until they are heard, Info-Prim Neo reports. Protester Nadejda Colesnic said she cannot set up a company as the law requires because she would sustain huge losses. She does not have money to buy a cash register and to pay a bookkeeper. Olesea Prigaru said they are fined thousands of lei because they do not have cash registers and do not issue checks to the buyers. But the people do not have money to pay these fines. Eugen Roscovan, the head of the Small Business Association, who supports the protesters, said there is a legislative initiative allowing these vendors to work under parent, but it was blocked by the Ministry of Economy. “The Ministry disapproved of this initiative and thus it cannot be submitted to Parliament,” he stated. He also said the Ministry’s argument that this initiative stimulates the underground economy is ridiculous. “The minister has a logic-related problem or this is done on purpose,” said Eugen Roscovan. The sellers of flowers worked under the entrepreneur’s patent until 2008. The patent is a state certificate allowing the holder to perform a certain type of activity for a particular period of time. Now the small entrepreneurs are obliged to register a limited liability company, have cash register and bookkeeper. The vendors of flowers and used mobile phones have protested since October.