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Zero Rastro vacancies across 41 documents, at El Rastro de Madrid

Article 17 of the Rastro ordinance requires a public draw for vacancies. Across 41 BOAM documents, from 2007 to 2026, the Rastro entry does not declare a single one: there is no public list for that draw to work on.

A barrel-organ player sitting on the crosswalk at El Rastro de Madrid
Annual BOAM listings41documents, from 2007 to 2026, carrying the Rastro entryChecked on August 23, 2026
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Rastro vacancies0declared in all of them, when article 17 requires a public draw to fill them2000 Rastro ordinance, article 17

What the documents say

The Centro district's annual pitch listings do handle the vocabulary: other street markets in the district declare vacant, newly created and removed pitches, and the Christmas tree market on Plaza Mayor goes as far as naming its single vacancy by number. The Rastro entry, across the 41 documents, carries no stall count and no declaration of vacancies. The whole file, document by document, is in objections.

What it proves and what it does not

This does not prove the stalls are handed out badly, and nothing we have read supports that. It proves something narrower and checkable: that from the outside it cannot be known, because the draw the rule requires has no public list to work on.

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A finding lands here when two documents from the same authority say incompatible things. The contradiction is published with its sources and the date it was checked, and nothing more: conclusions the documents do not give are not written.