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Traffic fines could increase by 60% starting next year. If a decision on the fine point is not made before December 31, 2020, it will automatically increase from the first day of next year. However, it is not the only consequence of maintaining an interim government, which cannot issue emergency ordinances. The economic impact could be significant in the event of a political stalemate in the formation of a new executive.
On the last day of 2020 the limit of the fine to 145 lei expires and only a government with full powers can decide to extend the measure.
In the absence of emergency ordinances, which the current Government cannot enact, the allowances of dignitaries and positions assimilated to dignitaries, including the president and the patriarch, crowned at the beginning of the year, will also increase.
The failure to install a government with full powers until the end of the year means that special pensions for mayors, suspended earlier this year, will also be paid.
In addition, public servants will receive extra money for the food standard.
What Drivers Say About Increasing Fines
The maximum fine that a driver can receive now is 2,900 lei, that is, 20 fine points. If a new limit is not decided, the maximum amount that a driver who has violated the Traffic Code can pay is more than 4,400 lei.
In the absence of an emergency ordinance, good point it will increase by almost 100 lei from January 1. And that’s because he it represents 10% of the gross minimum wage in the economy.
Not all drivers believe that they should receive a more severe fine if they violate traffic regulations.
“Compared to the economic situation in the country, it seems quite out of place, fixed during the pandemic,” says one of them.
“Like the traffic in Bucharest, you get fined on every corner. What did I do then? We work for fines? Really?”, Comments another indignant.
“We put 60% or whatever comes, yes, it’s more or less 60%,” says a third.
“It can be daunting when certain undesirable things happen in traffic, not wearing a seat belt, going without a license,” says a young man.
“From my point of view, it may increase, in 20 years I have not received a fine, but it is a lot,” admits another driver.
Economists say limiting fines is a populist move
Economists say the government would have no reason to extend the limit on the fine to 145 lei. Freezing the fine point is a populist move and there would be no real reason why not even a cabinet voted in Parliament to decide to limit fines, as has happened for the past three years.
“It should increase with the increase in salary from year to year. For populist reasons, I would say, the fine point has remained constant for the last three years and now if it is released, it would mean an increase in fines in general between 40 and 60%. But it is normal for this to happen considering that the fines must be related in some way to the income that Romanians have, “says economist Dragoș Cabat.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
