Orban warned budget officials: “It is possible to reduce the number of employees in the public sector.” Who are the targets

Present on Sunday night, in a Romanian television program, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban reaffirmed that the Government does not intend to reduce wages, but to increase the income of Romanians “on a realistic economic basis”. When drawn to the budget deficit, Ludovic Orban stated that this budget deficit should be seen in the context of the financial situation from which Romania started.

“Romania started from an inherited deficit of 4.6%. The deficit of 9.1 must be seen in its dynamics, it is a deficit that you maintained from the previous year. Other countries are heading for higher deficits if they did not have a deficit. In our country, the increase in the deficit is less than the increase in the deficit in other European countries.Even the dynamics of the Gross Domestic Product with respect to the European average puts us with 2.4% of GDP in a better situation than the European average. In Romania, for example, the average net salary has increased, “Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said.

He says that “there is a recovery trend” in the economy, given that five consecutive months of industrial growth and four consecutive months have increased budget revenues.

“There are no cuts, if necessary, 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. There are some in danger who have become used to pretending to work, not those who do their job. Otherwise, our goal is to increase people’s income. That is why we want economic growth as fast as possible ”, added the prime minister.