SOURCES Tensions in NLP. The problem: postponing the provision of special pensions for local elected officials

Ludovic Orban, Prime Minister of Romania and president of the PNL, took his party colleagues by surprise in several statements made in a weekend interview, including the fact that the government would try to postpone the granting of special pensions for another year . local elected officials, but also the fact that the restructuring would occur within the budget apparatus. Specifically, the elected officials who would face a new postponement of special pensions are current or former mayors, deputy mayors, presidents and vice presidents of the CJ.

Sources of the leadership of the NLP specified for “Adevărul” that, shortly after, telephone calls were initiated from the territory to find out what was happening. “The mayors and our local administration people immediately started asking us if they would take sugar again, especially now, on the eve of the elections. Last year they had high expectations with the increase in pensions and salaries, but they understood that we could not because of the pandemic. But now they have complained that they will not be able to vote for the people, if from above, from Bucharest, it is announced that we must prepare for the dismissals and the fact that they can say goodbye to the special pensions ”, said sources of the management. NLP.

In fact, Orban’s announcement about the “efficiency” of the budget apparatus was clear. “We will optimize the structures of public institutions, we will get rid of some who do not do their job. We need to do simplification, debureaucratization, digitization anyway, we need to do an audit, an evaluation of public institutions anyway, and obviously it is possible to reduce the number of employees in the public sector. But shutting up any employee of a public institution who does his job is not in danger. Some are in danger of being used to pretending to work, not those who do their job, “Orban said in an interview with Agerpres.

NLP problems

Political sources from the PNL leadership assure that the image of the liberals is increasingly wrinkled, the last big problem being the scandal around the engineer Ovidiu Ianculescu, the official forced to resign by several liberals from the position of director of the Management System of the Mureş Water. “It was not enough that we faced the problem of the markets, then came the tragedy of Piatra Neamţ and finally the case of Mureş spread everywhere on the Internet. If the PSD starts screaming now that we are cutting like Boc, we will wake up with a much worse result than at the local level ”, said one of the vice presidents of the PNL.

In fact, Ludovic Orban said in an interview on Sunday that the NLP expects a result between 32% and 36%, which would allow the liberals to be in first place and give the future prime minister. The main sources told “Adevărul” that the Liberals are now struggling to reach 30%, and a demobilization in the December 6 vote would affect them considerably. That is why, every day, Ludovic Orban and Klaus Iohannis try to mobilize the liberal electorate by invoking the danger of the PSD, despite the fact that the Social Democrats have not reached any decision that arouses general discontent.

Fear of a small stake

“I think our biggest enemy in this election will be participation. We will hardly be able to convince people to go out, after we also told them that it is good to protect yourself and avoid exits. As for the latest messages, hopefully not. there is time for them to be launched by the PSD, because in the villages we only fight with them. It will matter a lot how many parties manage to enter Parliament, because we could get additional percentages of parties that “stole” the PSD votes, but redistribution comes to us “said one of the vice presidents of the PNL for” Adevărul “.

In fact, according to the cited source, the messages sent by Orban on Sunday night would also aim to eliminate USR-PLUS subjects from the attack, a party that accused in the campaign that the NLP continues to make decisions for the partisan clientele, since Whether it is the elected of the territory or the people who have in the local and central administration.