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For Ludovic Orban there is another important roadblock to occupy. In the Government, not in the Chamber of Deputies. There he has already taken power.
This is the General Secretariat of Government (SGG). A kind of “master of the rings”. It is the institution on which the proper functioning of the Executive depends and is close to the Prime Minister.
But, according to several leaders of the PNL, it is not the new liberal prime minister, Florin Cîțu, who will appoint the secretary general of the government. But also Ludovic Orban, the one who, with two exceptions, imposed the party as ministers only to people close to him.
Officially, the prime minister appoints the head of the SGG
The most popular name for taking over the General Secretariat of the Government is Tănase Stamule, a former collaborator of Ludovic Orban.
The PNL president, determined to retain power, continues with his “strategy of political containment” over the new liberal prime minister, which political scientists translate as “a long-term strategy of control and isolation.”
Basically, the PNL leader wants to maintain complete authority over the prime minister, implicitly over the functioning of the new Executive.
The General Secretariat of Government, according to current regulations, is subordinate to the Prime Minister. The SGG oversees the development of technical and strategic operations related to government acts, solving the organizational, legal, economic and technical problems of the activity of the Government and the Prime Minister.
Among its many responsibilities, SGG supports draft regulations, contributes, from the analysis, to the substantiation of the strategies, to the strategic planning and to the establishment of the directions of action at the governmental level.
The SGG is headed by the Secretary General of the Government, a person with the rank of minister, appointed and removed by decision of the Prime Minister.
This is what the normative acts say about the operation of the SGG. The president of NLP has the intention of something else.
Tănase Stamule, preferred by Orban for the leadership of the SGG
Tănase Stamule, who is at the top of the PNL President’s list of favorites for assuming the leadership of the SGG, is also currently the State Councilor on Economic Issues in the Prime Minister’s Chancellery. He was appointed by Ludovic Orban when he took office as Prime Minister in November 2019.
Stamule is vice dean of the ASE School of Business Administration. Ludovic Orban nominated him as the PNL candidate for mayor of sector 1 in this year’s local elections.
Position from which it was withdrawn after the political agreements between PNL and USR-Plus, the liberals giving USR, by Clotilde Armand, the candidacy for mayor of sector 1.
At present, the Executive does not have a Secretary General of the Government. Acting Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca briefly removed Ludovic Orban’s appointee as head of the SGG in December. Respectively about Antonel Tănase.
The public motivation of the acting Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă regarding the removal of Antonel Tănase was elegant but allusive: “It is a matter of professional incompatibility between him and me.”
Tănase Stamule, along with Antonel Tănase, Virgil Guran, Ionel Dancă and other collaborators of Ludovic Orban when he was prime minister, is part of the group that has strained relations between the PNL president and most of the central and local liberal leaders.
Liberals increasingly accuse the PNL president, Ludovic Orban, of isolating himself from the party in favor of a personal clientele.
Worse still, he is also accused of weakening the NLP by handing over important economic ministries to coalition partners as well as leadership positions in Parliament just to maintain a leadership position in the state.
Respectively, the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, if he failed to retain his position as prime minister.
