The subject of positions from state -owned companies that are, in fact, self, is for years in public attention, but without changes that have significant changes. The projects to reduce the number of board of directors of these companies or the allowances received by the members are blocked in the Parliament and there are only promises. Why? These positions “generally served to plant the party clients,” says economist Bogdan Glävan.
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Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan recently reported the existence of a special committee. where a member is paid with 30% of a minister’s salary for a single meeting. However, he mentioned that no rapid changes can be made because the allowances were established by law, and the Parliament is on vacation.
Over time, the parties have promised that they reduce the Sinecs, also carrying out bills in this regard, which have remained blocked in the Parliament.
Forgotten projects in Parliament
Thus, in Parliament, there are two projects that regulate this area. The first, submitted in 2019 by PNL, the limit to 5 the number of members in the board of directors, in directorates or supervisory councils. The initiative passed by the Senate, but was blocked at the Chamber of Deputies. The project also provided that a natural person cannot exercise more than a single mandate in these councils.
Also at the Chamber of Deputies, another project was blocked by the PSD in 2021. This time, the initiative of the allowances of the members of the councils and was signed by the party leaders (Marcel Ciolacu, Sorin Grindeanu and Paul Stănescu), but remained in the drawers of the Economic Commission, led by the PSD.
The promises of the governors
Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu announced in February 2025, after the European Commission requested since the summer of 2024 to remove the state secretaries from the councils, that the decision was taken, but not at the Commission’s recommendation. “Yesterday I made a very clear decision, because, even if the legislative was not a recommendation made by the commission, nor by the OECD, as a custom, the politicians and the state secretaries fall into this category, they cannot apply to the Board of Directors, in other words, they cannot participate in the selection on OUG 109/2011. state there.”, Ciolacu announced from Brussels. The decision was taken by an ordinance signed by the whole government.
In fact, the measure did not produce the expected effects. Mihai Diaconu, Secretary of State at Finance, obtains additional income from the CA of the Electrica SA Energy Society and from Exim-Banca Românească. Eduard Bacare, Secretary of State in the MApN, also has revenues as a member of the Board of Directors at the National Company of Airports Bucharest SA and holds the position of member in CA in Romtehnica. According to Profit.ro, Marius-Antonie Negru, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Energy and vice-president of the Gorj County Organization, was appointed in Energonuclear.
With or without amepip
From PNRR, 330 million euros are for the norms requested by the European Commission regarding the new heads of the Agency for Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Enterprises (AMEPIP). The European Commission has approved the payment to Romania of 1.279 billion euros from the request 3 of the National Plan for Resilization and Resility (PNRR), but about 870 million euros are suspended due to non -fulfilled milestones, including the operationalization of AMEPIP.
USR announced the submission of a project for its abolition. The party invokes even the blocking of an important install from the PNR, but also the fact that alternative solutions can be implemented. The Minister of European Projects and Investments, Dragoș Pîslaru (landmark), claims that Romania would lose 330 million lei.
“The truth is that we should not have Amepip. But in Romania, when a text comes and says you have to have a structure that manages the whole problem, to supervise the entire administration of staff companies, our bureaucrat, with communist mentality, what to understand? They understand that they have to do a ministry or something,” says economic analyst Bogdan Glăvan.
Board of Directors, for party clientele
Board of Directors “They generally served for planting the party clientele ”says economic analyst Bogdan Glăvan.
“They were completely politicized on the face, so to speak. There were no more selections, there were always extensions, appointments and so on. So, it is certain that the state companies were poisoned. So, this was a growing phenomenon and they did not give back, despite the many attempts. I had to ensure the professionalization.”, Says Bogdan Glăvan.
According to the analyst, the real problem is another, however, hidden under the price: “From a broader perspective, all this discussion is just the puppy’s tail. That is, around that everything turns or we all turn around the tail and we can’t break it for many years, but it’s just the dog’s tail. That is, the elephant, to take another famous metaphor, is well thanked and is elsewhere. ”
The discussion regarding the board of directors should not concern the number of members of the councils, nor the salaries:
“We lose ourselves in details and lose sight of the forest. The forest is that we have so many state-owned companies, they must be much more effective. We lose our time by discussing some derisory things and thus distorting them in a way that does not help to understand the problem. Public.
This topic is intentionally maintained by some more intelligent and naively. Maintained, intentionally, just to look completely and not to discuss the main subject, which the PSD refuses radically and of course, not by chance, that it works. Many being from PSD. The main subject being privatization ”.
