Ilie Bolojan said on Sunday, members of the PSD-PNL-USR-UDMR coalition, that he resigns if the PSD does not accept simple reforms.
Ilie Bolojan, Prime Minister of Romania Photo: Gov
UPDATE: PNL reacted, through a Facebook post, after Sunday the coalition failed to agree on the reform of the local administration.
“The political parties must be reasonable: the effective reduction of positions is 10%. Not 25% or 45% as it was said in the press. In short: a town hall or a county council has a maximum ceiling of positions, depending on the number of inhabitants. Today, the total number of positions established by the organizations of the local authorities is 158,500 positions, it is observed that the number of positions established by organizations is about 23% lower than the maximum set ceilings.
In the post, the Liberals also point out that not all the positions in the organizational charts are busy. The number of positions occupied in the local administrations is 127,500, rounded and related to point 1, at the maximum ceiling, they represent 68%. That means a difference of 32%, on average.
“Conclusion: The effective reduction of staff in local administrations has effects from a 30% decrease of the maximum ceiling. In short: if we agree to lower the positions occupied by approx. Impact as reasonable as possible.
Given that each administrative unit has established its independent organizational chart, including occupied positions, the effects of the possible 40% reduction of the maximum ceiling will be different from one administration to another. In a good part of the mayors (50%, estimated) there will be no personnel discounts. In the others, the reduction of personnel could be between 1–2% and 20%.
In short:
When reducing the base ceiling by 25%, no busy position is restructured; At a reduction of 40% of the maximum legal ceiling, as PNL proposed, approx. 10% of the positions will be restructured (the coalition had assumed 20%); In nominal values, it is about approx. 13,000 busy positions.
It is an evaluation moment for each town hall that should make discounts, compared to the town halls in similar localities where the staff is correctly sized. What Ilie Bolojan proposed is only common sense! If the ruling coalition cannot make such simple structural reforms, how to propose others of a greater impact? What we know today is that 5 of the 6 packages will pass this week. The future is uncertain. We will only be part of a coalition that can hold the country on the waterline and relaunch it economically. Otherwise…”, The PNL statement ends!
“I can’t drag all the reforms like that. It’s a beating. What are you doing when the heavy reforms come, if you can’t even cut into the local administration? If we are unable to make a simple reform, cut 10 percent of the local administration, look for another solution, without me.said Bolojan, according to political sources.
The governing coalition on Sunday discussed the package of fiscal and administrative measures that bring redundancies in the public administration, the responsibility of the mayors and the assumption of the Government’s responsibility. The package includes increases in taxes and positions, and the decisive vote is scheduled on Monday night, in the Parliament plenary.
Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan had the support of USR, but PSD and UDMR opposed the proposals presented.
According to the calculations, if the 45%reduction were applied, only about 13,000 officials would have been dismissed. The rest of the stations targeted would have remained unoccupied and did not generate effective dismissals.
This postponement means that the discussions regarding the reorganization of the specialized apparatus of mayors, county councils and local public institutions will continue, preparing the land for a final decision in mid -September.
The Bolojan government is to take responsibility for the fiscal package on Monday, which also provides for increasing property taxes of up to 70%. Instead, the reform of the local administration has been postponed and will be rediscovered on Sunday.
Five laws in the 2 austerity package will be voted on Monday at 19:00.
It is about the draft law for the magistrate’s service pensions; The draft law for health reform; The draft law for the corporate governance of public enterprises; The draft law on the efficiency of the activity of some autonomous administrative authorities; The draft law for establishing measures to recover and streamline public resources.
