The extra-parliamentary party Povo Optimista no Desenvolvimento de Moçambique (PODEMOS) intends to transform informal vendors into solid entrepreneurs.

The President of PODEMOS, Albino Forquilha, announced this on Saturday (28) in Maputo, during a march in the city of Maputo, to mobilize his electorate with an eye on the general elections on 9 October, having climbed the markets of Malanga, Fajardo and Xipamanine.

"I think we are a good example of governance, not least because our motto, our cause is social justice and good governance. So you can't govern well without addressing the issue of social justice, issues of equality, fairness, respect for people of value in parliament, who know that they are there for the people, and without that you can't govern well," said Forquilha.

In a publication by AIMForquilha added that, "to this end, today we are focusing on our contact with vendors from the Malanga, Fajardo and Xipamanine markets so that we can help these people to become solid entrepreneurs, because they already have solid experience".

The president of PODEMOS said that his party will value informal workers by inserting a financing project because it is with the sweat of this business that they are able to train their children, who are the future of tomorrow.

"And from this base, we value as PODEMOS, that we need to take all these moms and enlist them and from their experience build the business community," he said.

"The state has to help these people, based on their experience, so that they can expand their small business into a big business and also employ or even train other Mozambicans, other young people," he added.

He said that this project will generate employment for young people, because if they manage to financially assist three or four thousand people in a market, these people can also manage to employ four or five thousand people and they will have a range of people in the job market "and from this assistance, they will gain formal status, because when the state assists them, it also locates them, it also legalizes a number of aspects".

The source pointed out that it was imperative to eliminate informal trade because it contributes little to the economy, as they don't pay tax.

There is also the fact that they are selling in inhumane conditions, because "there is no assistance at all, there is a feeling of disconnection between the state and these people and we don't want that to exist, because this state exists exactly for these people".

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