MEP Siegfried Mureşan (PNL) accused PSD on Wednesday of an attempt to violate the coalition agreement and to sabotage the budget in Parliament with the help of AUR MPs, stating that this behavior is typical of extremist and populist parties.
“PSD wanted to betray the coalition agreement and sabotage the budget in Parliament with AUR’s votes. Now PSD is complaining that it was betrayed by AUR at the vote. This is how extremist and populist parties behave everywhere in Europe: they torpedo each other, betray each other and very rarely manage to reach an agreement“, Mureşan wrote in a post on Facebook.
Siegfried Mureşan’s message for PSD
The MEP added that “The PSD must decide whether it will continue to act as a populist party, alongside the AUR, or whether it will behave as a responsible party, alongside the coalition partners”.
The joint budget-finance commissions rejected the PSD amendment
We remind you that on Wednesday, March 18, the budget-finance committees met rejected the PSD amendment regarding the supplement to the budget of the Ministry of Labor, after a meeting marked by heated disputes and a break of almost three hours, requested to clarify the initial vote.
The proposal of the social democrats aimed to allocate 1.1 billion lei for support measures aimed at families with low incomes, families with disabled children and the granting of financial aid to approximately 2.8 million pensioners, with a budget impact estimated at 2.35 billion lei in 2026.
Following the rejection of the amendment, the leader of the PSD senators, Daniel Zamfir, warned that the party will not support the budget of the Ministry of Finance if the necessary funds for the one-off packages are not identified.
For his part, the president of the Budget Commission in the Chamber of Deputies, the liberal Bogdan Huțucă, drew attention that a vote against the Finance budget would block the entire procedure, since the state budget could no longer be discussed.
Amid these tensions, the meeting of the joint committees was suspended for further consultations in an attempt to find a political solution.
