The General Mayor of the capital, Nicușor Dan, admitted, on Friday, during a televised interview that he has not yet submitted any heating project. The statement comes after the Minister of Energy, the PNL candidate for the Bucharest City Hall, Sebastian Burduja, stated that the mayor “lied” and that the Municipality of Bucharest did not submit any project in the call for heating networks.
Nicuşor Dan: The feasibility studies were approved PHOTO Inquam Photos / George Călin
“I talked two weeks ago with the director who deals with the energy part and she told me that in a few days she will submit the documents. I thought he submitted them. He did not submit them. It is a matter of days until they are filed. They are written, they are voted in the General Council, it was my error, I thought they had already been submitted“, said Nicușor Dan, on B1 TV.
The general mayor of the Capital said that the projects will be submitted “by the end of next week, maybe even Monday or Tuesday“. “I also checked right after. I didn't even think that they weren't submitted“, added Nicușor Dan.
The General Mayor of the Capital also explained that “there are a series of formalities, beyond the actual technical projects, some financial statements must be submitted, there are some administrative formalities that must be fulfilled“. “The feasibility studies were approved a month and a half ago by the General Council”, added Nicușor Dan.
Burduja: The Mayor General is lying to us
The Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja, stated on Thursday that the representatives of the Capital City Hall did not submit any project in the call for heating networks.
“I would like to make a clarification, because yesterday (Wednesday, May 20, 2024, no) a misinformation of public opinion was carried out, namely the general mayor Nicusor Dan said on a television station, at a prime time, that The Municipality of Bucharest submitted two projects of 50 million euros each for this call (modernization of the heating system, no. I have, of course, checked this information with my colleagues and I can tell you that it is a lie. No project was submitted by the Municipality of Bucharest”, claimed Burduja.
The PNL candidate for the Capital's City Hall stated, on Wednesday, in a televised interview that the Capital's mayor “lied” and that in fact he would not have submitted any project on the funding line opened by the Ministry of Energy.
“There are 590 million euros in the heating call launched 5 months ago, the rehabilitation of the pipes, exactly what Bucharest needs, for which Bucharest has not submitted any project even today. Others have submitted. So the general mayor is also lying to us, this very evening on another prime-time television, that he has submitted a project. I checked with my colleagues, he didn't submit any project, so I'm asking him to clarify actually admit that he lied,” said Sebastian Burduja, at Digi 24.
The declarations of the PNL candidate came after Nicuşor Dan said in a televised interview that a DEPOSIT “two projects of 50 million euros”.
“This is the strict responsibility of the ministry company. In Bucharest, we have shared heating between production, which is 97% of Elcen. Regarding the program from the Ministry, we also submitted two projects of 50 million euros each, because that was, as the guide was made, the maximum amount. I had some objections and I also spoke with you, because we have half of the centralized system, we have 550,000 apartments, as there are in the rest of the country. We have three big projects, one of 400 million euros and two of 100 million euros. Assuming we win that 50 million euros, we will have to borrow for the rest. I didn't even submit the big project, worth 400 million euros”, said Nicușor Dan on Romania TV.
