On Sunday, the liberal first vice-president Rareş Bogdan declared that, despite the disagreements or dissatisfactions that resulted after the positioning of each party in view of the presidential elections, in the international context of insecurity, the PNL has no intention of breaking the coalition.
Rareş Bogdan says that PNL wants to reshuffle the government. Archive photo
“Each party positions itself for the presidential elections. The PNL does not break and has no intention of breaking the government. With what is happening in the Middle East and with the way the conflict in Ukraine is evolving, neither we nor they allow ourselves to break this government”, said Rareş Bogdan on Antena 3.
In addition to the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, which can escalate at any time and which must be monitored, the government has to manage a lot of other internal problems, related to the functioning of the economy, the management of European money, the negotiations with the European Commission, so that neither the PNL nor PSD cannot break the coalition until this year’s elections.
“There are many things that need to be done in government, it’s about European money that must continue to be brought into the Romanian economy, it’s about PNRR, which has some delays on the third tranche and they need to be corrected. It’s about a negotiation that we have to do with the European Commission, so that we don’t have to lower the ceiling for micro-enterprises starting from October, November, it’s about the discussions on the deficit”, detailed the penlist.
On the other hand, he admitted that the PNL has dissatisfaction with the activity of some ministers in the Executive, declaring that a reshuffle of the Government could be possible, so that it “would be a little energized”.
“There are certain ministers with whom we have certain dissatisfactions, both in our case and that of the PSD, and I think we should come up with certain additions. Let the Government be a little energized in view of the quite difficult autumn. I think it needs some reshuffling. The reshuffle is the prerogative of the prime minister. We, on the other hand, being in government, with 46% of this government, have the right to come up with our options and explain what we think is not working”, Rares Bogdan explained.
As the reshuffle falls under the attributions of the pesedist Marcel Ciolacu, Rareş Bogdan declared that it is “absolutely convinced that the prime minister will be as open as possible and will analyze these proposals that they will make with regard to certain departments or areas led by social democrats and certain areas led by liberals”.
