The topic of the pro-European alliance debates of the last days was the designation of a technocrat prime minister. One of the proposed variants is Delia Velculescu, former head of the IMF mission in Greece. Another name placed on the table is that of the chief economist of Raiffeisen Bank, Ionuț Dumitru. And not only.
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Who is Delia Velculescu
Delia Velculescu was at the leadership of the IMF mission in Greece in 2015-2018, replacing Rishi Goyal. The Greek press then wrote that Delia Velculescu is the “brunette version of the chief of the IMF Christine Lagade”, both having “the elegance and instinct of the birds of prey”.
It was appointed to the leadership of the IMF mission in Greece due to the experience obtained in evaluating the Finance of the Greek state, wrote the Greek press in 2015. It was also recommended by its rigid character, shown in 2012, during a similar mission in Cyprus, where he acquired his nickname “Delia Drăculescu”. It would have caused the sweats of Cypriot officials.
Velculescu finished the National College “Gheorghe Lazăr” in Sibiu in 1993. At that time, he was preparing to give admission to the Academy of Economic Studies, but received a scholarship in the United States and continued his studies there. Being a student, the Romanian met on a doctor from Romania, Victor Velculescu.
When they met, he was a student at the Faculty of Biology at Stanford University, and she was attending the Wilson College in Pennsylvania. They got married and have three children together, living in America, on the East Coast. Delia Velculescu was employed at the IMF in 2003, and her husband became a teacher in oncology.
Ionuț Dumitru and Lucian Croitoru, on the list
Another proposal would be Ionuț Dumitru, chief economist at Raiffeisen Bank, according to Digi24. Ionuț Dumitru is a chief economist from 2005 within the bank and has a doctorate at ASE, where he now teaches.
The name of Lucian Croitoru, current counselor on monetary policy of the BNR governor, is also carried. Croitoru was also proposed in 2009, but the government that he formed failed to vote in Parliament.
However, the chances of accepting the idea of a technocrat remain weak, given that the only party that supports this version is PSD. USR and President Nicușor Dan positioned against this variant. The head of state has supported from the campaign for the presidential elections that it would propose Bolojan, but stressed that everything will actually depend on parties and that he cannot promise.
Technocrat or escape of responsibility
Polishologist George Jiglău emphasizes that the designation of a technocrat at the head of the government signals a lack of responsibility, especially in the case of social democrats, which impose the variant.
“” It is clear that there will be some political costs there, but that means running out of responsibility. You run away from the fixed responsibility when it is harder, while you still want to be there. You want to show that you impose your man, but at the same time not to be one from you. He didn’t want to, that the president wanted, that Bolojan himself wanted or that the parties did not want to him. points out the political scientist.
It will also depend on the person designated for the position of prime minister. “Croitoru and Dumitru are not unknown. If they were any of them, they are the kind of financiers who think they would, if I’m not wrong, I think they are the kind who are more oriented on this idea of austerity, that not by chance and Basescu came with this proposal when I was in the crisis. The expenses had to be reduced, but so with the ax as they were then and it is likely that it is the kind of character that ideologically is somewhere there, so it believes in austerity as a solution to reduce the deficit and with the assumption of all the social costs that are somewhere in the second plane ”, George Jiglău also explains.
“It will be extremely difficult, especially for someone who comes from the outside of the parties” – George Jiglău, Politicologist
“If there is a pure austerity-oriented plan, then a steep financier that counts receipts and expenses are likely to draw, it should be the right person and that means that all the parties are in this way. If it’s a more nuanced matter, you need someone to come to an area How the state system works. George Jiglău also points out.
In the case of a technocrat, the main problem would be the imposition in the subsequent negotiations with the political formations: “It will be extremely difficult, especially for someone who comes from the outside of the parties. So now this negotiation capacity I think must be very well present and put to work after it eventually forms the Government in one way or another, but when all this story has to happen that it has to happen very quickly in terms of implementation of measures and which has to give us the results that have to give us the results. everyone.
