Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan spoke on Thursday, in the News Pass show Moderate by Laura Chiriac on B1 TV, about the dissatisfaction expressed by several local elected officials, who demanded the lack of funds for the payment of salaries and covering the current expenses, as well as the issues related to the heating of the educational units. The head of the government explained the causes that led to this situation.
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Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said that the statements of mayors claim that they have no money for salaries, that they cannot cover the expenses or that it is cold in schools represent exaggerations and do not reflect reality.
He explained that such situations are part of a “technique” used by many local authorities to create an apparent need for resources. Some mayors do not budget all their expenses by the end of the year, such as salaries for November and December, to put pressure on the government to come up with borrowed money.
Bolojan stressed that there is no reason why the legislative change will create blockages in the central or local administration. This measure is applied annually, and next week adjustments will be made to eliminate the bureaucratic constraints related to repairs and normal operation, but keeping the limitations needed for this period.
“There is no reason, at the moment, in order to have blockages in the central or local administration in this change. This change has been made every year. It is true that now the Ministry of Finance has proposed a measure that only applies to the central administration and has been extended for the local administration, which creates a bureaucratic formula, which you want to do. Bureaucratizes things and, given that for the local administration it would indeed create a certain bureaucratic constraint, next week the necessary changes will be made in such a way that, keeping the limitations that we must put into practice during this period, to eliminate these small constraints or normal functioning ”, said the prime minister.
The prime minister also explained that, for the credibility of the country, the budget estimates must be respected.
“In order to make an image, we have committed to a budget deficit, which is quite close and it would be good for our country as we announce some figures, they are respected in such a way that, at the end of the year, so in a few months, we find that this estimate is as close to reality. Expenses from the local administration, at the level of the average monthly expenses, during the first nine months of the year, we have a wave of expenses in November and December.says Bolojan.
The prime minister said that the expense ceilings were established taking into account the average monthly expenses plus 10%, including a margin for inflation. He believes that the recent statements of the mayors are exaggerated and are part of a strategy to create a need for additional resources.
“These provisions come to put these ceilings and, therefore, a ceiling has been set which means to comply with average expenses, plus 10%, which means that the inflation part that could influence these expenses have been taken into account. This is the reality, but all the statements that have been made in the last days, are some statements, which have not been in the case, which do not have this authority, which do not have this authority, which do not have this authority, which do not have to do, Do not budget all your expenses until the end of the year, do not provide your salaries on November and December, putting pressure on the Government, for the Government to come with money that we borrow, the 30 billion euros we borrow, and out of this money you give you, to cover your expenses that you did not budge. he said.
He also said that the support given to the directions for the protection of the child is legitimate, but some mayors are used to leave expenses.
“Next week we will publish the list with all the town halls in Romania and with all the public authorities that in August have registered payment arrears and not paying for these arrears or withholdings to a direct responsibility of those who did so”, said the prime minister.
What measures will be taken
Asked about direct liability, the prime minister explained: “” It means that if you do not pay CSS or CASS and you keep the money at the source for several months, you have a direct criminal liability for this. And in this situation, I hope that all the local elected officials will understand that the previous practices by which the Government came to extinguish the fires, surely, premeditated, that we will not understand, We no longer have the resources to cover the lack of efficiency or the lack of predictability in the expenses that the local administration, from a smaller or higher locality, does. “
