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“I would like to go back to the Constitution – Article 138, paragraph 5 of the Constitution, which says very clearly that all spending must have its source, because it was a subsidy decision, where the Court said that it is enough to say the bill. I go back to the beginning and we must read the Constitution in its spirit. It is normal for this article to have a spirit of fiscal responsibility. How to hold someone responsible? When you tell them to show you the source. The source of funding should not be only the account from the payment is made, an accounting thing, and where that account is financed, what are the amounts. Because, otherwise, this principle of fiscal responsibility is minimized, void of content, which we find in both the Fiscal Responsibility Law as in the Public Finance Law, so they are all related and had a purpose. When they made the Constitution, that was the objective, to limit these populist projects, to make those who come with projects populist groups at least present the source. Where do I get the money from? Where do you cut them? Because the Government – and I have also seen it … throws you at the opportunity, but the opportunity would have been, for example, to tax special pensions, but the Constitutional Court also says that special pensions cannot be taxed. So where is the government’s chance in the end?
There are many discussions here, I do not want to enter, but I hope that those of the Constitutional Court will judge in the spirit of the Constitution, that of fiscal responsibility, of the principle of fiscal responsibility. That is what we are asking for there. At the same time, if the Court decides otherwise, we will go exactly in the direction that I said: this year, the National Liberal Party has increased the pension point in the largest amount in recent years. In no year did the pension point increase by 177 lei, so we handle it in a period of crisis, in a period of economic crisis, of health crisis ”, added Florin Cîțu.
Florin Cîțu: They received more than anyone gave them
“People are not interested in percentages, 40%, 50%, 70%, they are interested in what it means. They received more than anyone gave them. At the same time, this year, the inflation rate was reduced to a minimum; We had the same inflation rate in 2017. During the PSD period, the inflation rate peaked at 5.4%, so the purchasing power decreased, and it was the highest inflation rate since 2011. That means a PSD government . We have increased the pension point, so people received the highest amount, 177 lei, plus the inflation rate decreased to the lowest level in 2017 and so far. That means even more purchasing power, “Minister Florin Cîțu also told B1.
Florin Cîțu: We will not deviate from what I said.
“We will not deviate from what we have said. I checked this increase very well with 177 lei, I made the budget rectification. There are no other resources in the budget. It will not go in another direction. In addition, we have already shown our vision for the coming years, how much the pension point will increase in 2021, how much the pension point will increase in 2022, in 2023, in 2024. We have already shown our vision of liberals and we will continue with the vision of our liberals, not what the Court tells us in this case ” .
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