The leaders of the governing Coalition meet again today, from 16:00, to discuss the latest changes regarding the state budget, after the project was put to public debate by the Ministry of Finance. According to Digi24.ro information, the social democrats are still dissatisfied with the way the division was made, because less money would have been granted for investments, but also for local authorities.
PSD leader: “It is no longer possible to continue the government with Prime Minister Bolojan”
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UPDATE 16:30 Even while the leaders of the Coalition were face to face at the Victoria Palace, the leader of the PSD senators, Daniel Zamfir, declared that it is no longer possible to continue the government with Ilie Bolojan as prime minister.
“The budget will not be voted without a decision that the minimum wage will be increased. We will not vote any budget without PSD’s solidarity program. (…) I believe that the government with Mr. Bolojan as prime minister can no longer continue. This does not mean that PSD imposes on PNL which prime minister to nominate.
I have the right to state that I can no longer go with this person, who is very stubborn, who wants to decide at his lordship’s pleasure what a budget should look like. I reserve the right to decide whether or not I can continue with this person,” the social democrat told Digi24.
The original news
The leaders of the PSD, PNL, USR, UDMR and the minorities are standing face to face again, today, at the Victoria Palace, to discuss the budget project that was recently put up for public debate.
Sources from the PSD leadership told Digi24.ro that the social democrats are still dissatisfied with the way the money from the budget was divided. On the one hand, they claim that local authorities will receive less money this year compared to past allocations. In addition, the Executive would have found an artifice through which, although the distribution of money in the local plan will be based on the same percentage as before, the calculation base would have been reduced. In other words, the amounts that the local authorities will receive would be lower in reality.
In addition, the reporting would be done on the data of the last population census and not on the INS data, as would have been the requests from the Coalition meetings, so the calculations would refer to fewer inhabitants than there are in reality.
There would also be dissatisfaction with the amounts allocated for investments, which the PSD representatives consider insufficient, the same sources claim. Also, Sorin Grindeanu’s formation did not receive the entire amount requested for the financial aid dedicated to vulnerable people. Instead of 3.4 billion lei, the Ministry of Finance made available only 1.7 billion lei for these measures.
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There were also tensions in Monday’s meeting of the governing Coalition due to an amendment that would have been introduced in the draft budget and that would have proposed that the mayors of the country support the arrears of the Capital City Hall with money from the local budgets. “I don’t agree that we should all pay the debts of mayors who didn’t know how to get along,” Dominic Fritz allegedly told his governing partners, according to information obtained by Digi24.ro.
Following disputes in the Coalition, the proposal was withdrawn.
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Budget adoption calendar
The final version of the budget would be adopted in Thursday’s meeting of the Government. On Friday, the project would be sent to the Parliament, so that the elected officials would have time over the weekend to draft possible amendments.
From Monday, the project would go to the specialized commissions for debate and then, on Wednesday, to the final vote of the parliamentarians.
The budget, put in transparency
The draft budget foresees total revenues of 391.7 billion lei, while expenses are estimated at 527.4 billion lei (budget credits). The Ministry of Finance also allows commitment credits of 712.5 billion lei, which represents the maximum amount that can be committed for future projects.
The ESA deficit is estimated at 6.0% of GDP, while the budget cash deficit is estimated at 6.2% of GDP in 2026, the draft budget also states.
Editor : A.G.
