On Wednesday, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu confused tax evasion with inflation when he spoke about the fact that “I cannot shrug my shoulders, Prime Minister of Romania, and look at the fact that we have the highest inflation in Europe”. The official was actually referring to tax evasion, not inflation.
Prime Minister’s Office: Ciolacu was actually referring to evasion, not inflation PHOTO Inquam Photos
“I’m fed up, for 30 or so years, finance ministers come, prime ministers come and say they’re digitizing. I can’t shrug my shoulders, Prime Minister of Romania, and look at the fact that we have the highest inflation in Europe, when I go to Brussels, that’s the first thing they tell me, that we have the biggest VAT gap . If you want a prime minister incapable and all the time to get out of this logic, because we have I don’t know what elections, as I saw the Minister of Transport, who assumed. Do we want to have highways once or do we postpone them for another year, because we are bothering in an election year? We need to be responsible”the prime minister said on Wednesday.
According to the cabinet of the head of the Executive Marcel Ciolacu, he was actually referring to evasion, not inflation, this also results from the context of the statement.
Therefore, the phrase “I can’t shrug my shoulders, Prime Minister of Romania, and look at the fact that we have the highest inflation in Europe, when I go to Brussels, that’s the first thing they tell me, that we have the biggest VAT gap” becomes: “I can’t shrug my shoulders, Prime Minister of Romania, and look at the fact that we have the biggest evasion in Europe, when I go to Brussels, that’s the first thing I say, that we have the biggest VAT gap “, the prime minister’s cabinet, according to News.ro.
As “Adevărul” reported, Marcel Ciolacu has also made mistakes in the past, for example, in a press conference organized at the end of April, in Timișoara, when he made an uninspired joke stating that he feels offended if “Moldovan”, he being from Buzau. The prime minister’s blunder was noticed immediately and charged with grimaces by his colleagues Alfred Simonis (TM) and Marian Neacșu (IL).
And at the beginning of April, PSD organized the “Real Green Friday” event, a response to the “Green Friday” campaign, initiated by the Ministry of the Environment. On this occasion, Marcel Ciolacu announced that he ordered an electric car model from Dacia, saying that “it’s a car made here, in Mioveni”. In reality, that model is made in China.
