The Secretary General of PSD, Claudiu Manda, used a metaphor to address Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan. “Rather, Mr. Bolojan sings, but he doesn’t sing from the same playlist,” said Manda. “It might be time to change the fiddle.”
Asked, on Antena 3 CNN, about the statement of a mayor, according to which “Bolojan plays the violin and PSD dances”Manda replied: “I wouldn’t want to say that Mr. Bolojan plays the violin and we dance, but rather that Mr. Bolojan plays many times, he doesn’t sing from the same playlist. Not that we dance, but we listen”, writes Mediafax.
He left open the possibility of changing the prime minister. “I think there might come a time when we say let’s change the violin because it doesn’t work anymore, it doesn’t respect the playlist anymore, and then we wouldn’t be able to listen to it anymore”, added the general secretary of the PSD.
PSD is conducting internal consultations for leaving the government
PSD is conducting consultations within the party to decide whether to remain in government alongside PNL and USR.
“We went into governing for the people and that we should govern for the people. Today when we look back, we don’t really see those effects,” said Claudiu Manda.
He specified that the decision is not related to appointments to services or prosecutor’s offices, but to the budget for 2026.It’s not related to services or prosecutors’ offices, but primarily related to the budget”he explained.
The budget, the decisive criterion
Manda pointed out that the budget should have been ready from November for the following year, but there is still no clear deadline.
“We’re in the middle of January and we don’t know when the budget is going to be. That it’s going to be in February, that it’s going to be in March, that it’s going to be in April. We don’t know when the budget is going to be”said the general secretary of the PSD.
He added that the PSD will make the decision in broad forums, with approximately 5,000 members, following the model in which they decided to enter the government.
“We blocked the prime minister’s intentions”
Claudiu Manda made an inventory of the reasons why the social democrats could leave the government.
“We ended up explaining things that happened for good, rather when we stuck to or blocked certain intentions of the prime minister”he said.
Manda gave as examples the increase of the minimum wage in the economy, the capping of basic food prices, the blocking of measures against the local public administration.
“We fought for the minimum wage. Price caps on basic foods. If we weren’t fighting for them, they wouldn’t be happening”said Manda.
The scandal with the local public administration
The general secretary of the PSD also criticized the measures proposed by Bolojan for the local administration.
“They read on tape in the government a text in which they forbade local public administration. Mayors were no longer allowed to buy paper for birth or death certificates. They were no longer allowed to make repairs.” he told.
Manda said that the 45% reduction of positions in the organizational charts at the town halls was discussed, which would have led to absurd situations.
“It’s a town hall that has 11 employees and has to fire 5 and stay with 6. Another town hall has 25 positions in the organization chart, 11 filled, and according to the formula, it still has 3-4 more to hire”he explained.
“Bolojan and USR harmonized the message”
Claudiu Manda observed “a harmonization of the public message between Mr. Ilie Bolojan and USR. There are voices in the PNL, they started to appear in the public space, of PNL mayors who no longer find themselves in such a message”, stated the general secretary of the PSD.
