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The USR accused the PSD of “throwing into chaos” the Romanian budget through the recent amendments to the budget rectification, after parliamentarians from the Parliament’s meeting budget financing committees voted in favor of increasing pensions by 40 %.
“Two of the changes introduced in the budget rectification, respectively, the increase in pensions by 40% instead of 14% and the limitation of Romanian loans from 44% to 40%, completely destabilize the country’s budget “is shown in a statement from the RSU.
According to USR, the increase in pensions by 40% “means a hole of tens of billions in the state budget, which can only be covered by loans or tax increases.”
“Romania can only pay pensions in one way. The money cannot come from heaven and we have not discovered a gold or oil reserve to trust. We will pay with more taxes on labor or with internal-external loans, deficits, inflation This means that we will erode the purchasing power of money and harm even those we claim to help, ”said USR deputy Claudiu Năsui during the joint meeting of the Finance and Budget Commissions that approved the report with amendments for the budget rectification .
“Every month of 2020, the public pension fund had an average deficit of 1.1 billion lei / month. That was before the increase in pensions this year. If we increase the value of the pension point by 40%, we would add a deficit of 2.6 billion lei every month. In one year, that would mean 31 billion lei just to pay for the promised false increase. In a sustainable way, increased pensions can only be achieved if the number of employees in the sector increases private sector and the average salary in the country, ”explained USR deputy Cristian Seidler, a member of the Labor Commission that debated the budget correction last week.
Liberals did not attend the budget committee meeting
Parliamentarians from Parliament’s joint finance and budget committees voted to increase pensions by 40%. 20 votes in favor. It was voted to repeal the article of the budget rectification law that provides for an increase of only 14% in pensions, instead of 40%. If the form adopted in the commissions also passes the vote in plenary, the pensions must be increased by 40%. The Liberals did not participate in the commission meeting, the only one who voted against the PSD amendments was USR deputy Claudiu Năsui.
President Klaus Iohannis declared that, through such action, “PSD wants to detonate Romania’s public finances.”
Furthermore, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban had a nervous breakdown at an election event in Argeș, in reaction to this news and said “these are crazy!” and that PSD, by amending the budget law in Parliament, “put Romania into bankruptcy” through additional expenses and, under these conditions, the state will no longer be able to borrow.
Web Editor: ML
