Key legal question
Whether Article 2(2) of the municipal ordinance violated economic freedom, equality, and federal market access rules by prioritizing local and regional vendors.
Extracted holding
The priority system was unconstitutional insofar as it systematically favored the same groups of candidates and distorted competition; limited preference for local vendors may be conceivable, but not a system excluding non-locals from any real chance.
Extracted reasoning
The allocation concerned commercial use of limited public space. Criteria must be objective and competition-neutral as far as possible. The ordinance privileged local, district, cantonal, regional, and extra-cantonal vendors in a fixed sequence, which was not neutral under the Constitution or the Market Internal Act.