In the meeting on Monday, January 13, PSD came up with the proposal of a draft law for the administrative-territorial reform of Romania, according to the spokesperson of the social democrats, Lucian Romașcanu.
PSD came up with the proposal of a draft law for administrative-territorial reform/PHOTO: Fpen
“Today there was a meeting of the National Political Council, in which governmental and legislative issues, as well as political and organizational issues, were discussed. Regarding the governmental and legislative side, the priority was established for the next period to establish a working group of PSDto propose a bill for the administrative-territorial reform of Romania, a promise that the political class has made for a very long time and which we have not fulfilled yet“, announced Lucian Romaşcanu, after the meeting of the party leadership.
He argues that through the reform, local administrations will be more efficient and administrative expenses will be reduced.
Also, Romașcanu specified that the project is to be discussed probably in the next six months, after which it will be discussed within the coalition, before passing to the Parliament.
The social democrat mentioned that “there is a need to consolidate some local communities, there is a need to consolidate public services and state services in the respective communities”.
“There are a lot of things that go into this, including education, education, health, access to health and infrastructure and so on. There is no principle of dissolution, there is the principle of merging, probably this will also be discussed“, explained Romașcanu. We are talking about small towns, under 3000 or 4000 inhabitants. These would be merged.
On October 22, USR submitted another project regarding the administrative-territorial reorganization of Romania. Among the measures, there is the reduction of the number of counties and the reorganization of Bucharest.
“The need to reduce the number of administrative-territorial units also results from the reality that 9 out of 10 localities in Romania are bankrupt primarily because they are too small. Romania needs structures that will develop it, not ones that only cut money for the benefit of party clientele”states USR in a statement, according to News.ro.
