The Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja, accused the mayor of the capital, Nicușor Dan, of neglecting his duties while campaigning for the presidential elections.
Sebastian Burduja criticized the mayor of the capital, Nicușor Dan PHOTO Facebook
“A new week begins without a budget approved for Bucharest. The campaign is in all, the general mayor is completely absent, and the problems gather. Here it is not about criticizing someone, but about telling a few truths, which the people of Bucharest (and not only) must know.
First: General City Hall is submerged in debt. To Elcen, the company of the Ministry of Energy, which produces the thermal agent, has to collect over 1.2 billion lei from the PMB. This is only the current debt, without the historical amounts. Elcen urgently needs funds to purchase gas (without gas, cannot produce thermal agent, and Bucharest risks running out of hot water) and to co-finance the modernization of the 3 CETs from 1960-1970 (South, Progresu and Grozavești), for which the Ministry of Energy obtained, at the end of the year, 361 millions superhuman efforts ”wrote Sebastian Burduja on his Facebook page.
He also accused that “The draft budget proposed by the general mayor in the campaign did not even cover the costs for the current year for heating and public transport”.
“The third truth: in the last five years, the PMB efforts to reduce its expenses have been almost non-existent. We are told that Bucharest receives less money from the budget. Even more, I expected to see at least a proposal to reduce the waste from public money. The Chamber of Deputies, but also at the Government level, are ambitious programs for cutting expenses.he wrote.
The Minister of Energy also argued that “Bucharest is a complicated city, with many problems.”
“However, for good months he is gone in the campaign. The sites lie abandoned, and the heating pipes are exposed only to demonstrate that ‘it is done, sir, finally, work.’“Burduja added.
He gave assurances that “PNL Bucharest will vote for a budget that respects two common sense principles: (1) payment of accumulated debts, billions of lei, which should be no problem for a town hall that, the faces, was ‘out of bankruptcy’; and (2) a serious program to reduce the expenses and to reorganize the City Hall for efficiency.
