The Bolojan government has been 100 days on September 30, and the balance sheet indicates 6 assumptions of liability in the Parliament, 5 without success and two simple motions, according to the fiscal-budgetary measures that caused both protests and scandal in coalition. However, “the reforms have not yet been made,” the leaders of the coalition say.
The government has exceeded 100 days in the photo Government of Romania
“We, until now, have not made any reform. The reforms have not yet been done. Something, very little in education.said Kelemen Hunor, talking about the 3 months of mandate of the Bolojan government.
The executive passed the 100-day terminal with two packages of fiscal-budgetary measures, which has assumed responsibility in the Parliament, being in a total, in fact, 6 projects, including measures to reduce the revenues for the budget, increase of the retirement age or even taxes, which have generated large protests, from the boycott of the first day, to the first day. Most of the time, however, the measures that the leaders of the coalition have contradicted in recent months have not indicated a significant budget impact.
At the same time, with the unpopular measures adopted, the Executive had to face 5 censorship motions and 2 simple motions aimed at his ministers, the vote on these being rather a symbol of the exercise of the opposition. The three gold, SOS and can not hold the required number of mandates to combat the parliamentary majority of the Bolojan Government.
“Maybe I could do more if we were more coherent, if we were more in solidarity between us and if we acting something more determined” – Ilie Bolojan, the Prime Minister of Romania
“It was not, practically, a austerity what was done, but I think there were some measures of responsibility, which had to be put into practice.states the prime minister, invoking the fact that the rating agencies did not decline Romania in the “junk” category and the continuation of the projects on European funds, being renegotiated at the same time.
Asked if he is satisfied with what the cabinet he has managed in the 100 days of mandate, the prime minister showed that “the decisions are not made very easily” in a coalition with 4 games.
“Sometimes the debate is good, because they come out, perhaps, the best ideas from a debate. And yes, I think that, in the given conditions, I could do more if we were more coherent, if we were more solid between us and if we were acting more determined ”the head of the Government also shows, suggesting that the reforms that have seized the Executive’s discussions of the last period seem to enter a straight line.
Why the reforms did not come. The strengths and shortcomings of the executive
“What was tried, and this is a plus for the Bolojan government, was to stabilize as much as the budget situation of Romania” – Andrei Taranu, political scientist
The political scientist Andrei Taranu points out that the reforms could not come, with the state, in fact, an urgent necessity in solving its economic problems started during the coronavirus pandemic period.
“You can never make a seizure reform. This is one thing anyone knows. First of all, you do not start to change your teeth when you have a serious health problem. First you solve the problem with health and then change. What could be done was a much better communication. Everyone understood that we have a historical deficit. Sure, here was a permanent political attempt that, in particular, the USR and then the PNL still blamed the PSD. But the crisis began, in fact, from the time of the Cîțu government. Then it started. The Cîțu government took some completely absurd measures, including the fact that Romania borrowed with 870 million lei. And then saying that we have negative interest. One by one, starting from that moment until today, because as you notice, Romania continues to borrow, probably at lower prices, but continue to borrow.
What was tried, and this is a plus for the Bolojan government, was to stabilize the budget situation of Romania. That is why it should be emphasized that we do not have a systemic crisis, we do not have a crisis such as from 2007-2012, which hit us in 2010-2015. We have a strictly national budgetary crisis. It is a crisis that we all generated, especially everything that meant this development part. ”
According to the political scientist, in the case of the Government led by Ilie Bolojan, there are some shortcomings. First of all, “One minus is that he has no courage. “
“In situations like this, any specialist in the economy tells you that you have to increase taxes and increase special taxes for the private environment. The one who, as you notice lately, is the one who has the most benefits as investment. (…) As the Minister of Energy he said, Romania has the highest prices in Europe.”, Explains the political scientist.
Also, the executive led by Ilie Bolojan must find a balance that he omits to question:
“Of course we are at a special security moment, special. But a way and balance in all should be found. This balance is not discussed and is not discussed by our society, nor by the Bolojan government. Probably not only the fault of the Bolojan government, it is a systemic problem. The fact that Mr. Bolojan seems to be extremely stubborn. good for a decade. “
The expert also notes the need for a constitutional modification, initially promised, before the elections of politicians regarding the administrative-territorial reform. “Romania must pass in parallel and as quickly as possible through a deep constitutional change”and a constitutional modification could also look at the Constitutional Court, where the Executive has so far encountered blockages regarding the reform of the special pensions.
“We are now hit by the same problems and we will endure endlessly because of some constitutional situations that we have kept since 1991 and which situation in 1991 was, in fact, the continuation of the old structures from the communist period. notes the political scientist Andrei Taranu.
