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The Romanian Constitutional Court decided, on Thursday, to reject the notification from the Government on the Law rejecting the GEO 123/2020 for the modification of article 3 of Law 61/1993 on the state allowance for children.
TO UPDATE However, child allowances could be doubled. The Constitutional Court rejected the Government’s appeal against the law that blocked the increase in the allocation in stages, spread over several years.
For more than nine months, the allocation between Parliament, the Government and the Constitutional Court has been doubling. Now the decision comes to the president.
It must be said from the outset that child allowances have always been an electoral currency, a promise that brings votes and a hot potato that is passed from one government to another, from power to the opposition and vice versa.
The governors claim that doubling the allocation now would mean a budget effort of 7 billion lei per year. Since there is not much money, children and parents do not have to make too many plans and hopes.
Romania has 3,500,000 children. On December 18, 2019, Parliament votes a law proposed by the PSD, recently passed in opposition, which establishes the doubling of the allowance for children from 150 lei to 300 lei and from 300 to 600 lei for children up to 2 years.
December 18, 2019, Alfred Simonis, leader of the PSD deputies: “How cynical can you be to take money from children?”
NLP members do not participate in voting. At the beginning of the year, the Orban Government issues an Emergency Ordinance postponing the doubling until August 2020, explaining that there is no money in the budget.
The act is rejected by Parliament in June. The government comes with a new ordinance that proposes to increase the allocation in stages, initially by 20%.
In August, this ordinance was also rejected by Parliament. The government requested the help of the Constitutional Court.
The decision is now up to the president
On Thursday, with a unanimous vote, the court ruled that the law by which Parliament rejected the government’s ordinance was constitutional.
Ludovic Orban, Prime Minister of Romania: “This increase in the endowment must be carried out taking into account the economic reality, the resources available to the budget, so that it is not a false increase, that cannot be faced later, does not generate unfavorable economic consequences.”.
Cristian Pârvulescu, political scientist: “Everything must be framed in an electoral context and we cannot forget that in the Constitutional Court there is a majority that has been demonstrating for some time in the most political way possible, because this increase will have consequences in the Sunday elections, the parliamentary elections and the Romania budget.“.
Now the decision corresponds to the President of Romania where the motivation of the Constitutional Court will arrive, but also the law that rejects the Government’s ordinance.
The head of state has 20 days to carry out the analysis. You can return the law to Parliament for re-examination or refer it to the Constitutional Court.
Since there is only one step left until the parliamentary elections and there is no money, it is quite possible that the increase in the allocation will fall on the shoulders of the future government.
TO UPDATE – NLP Senator Alina Gorghiu stated on Thursday that the Government will discuss options regarding allowances after the motivation of the Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR), noting that the allowances for children will not be doubled immediately, but by stages.
“It is very serious when rational arguments are put aside for other reasons related to elections and populism. For several weeks a series of things have happened that put into question the foundations of the country’s economic stability. There is no government no The NLP has already made several increases, the last this month, and the NLP was also the first party to have a chapter on support for families and population growth in the government program, but currently we are in a difficult situation . and in fact not only we, but all countries are affected by the crisis “, Gorghiu said.
He noted that the “rational solution” was to double the subsidies in installments.
“The rational solution, as I said, was to double the diets in stages and we would have reached where we all want in two years without stopping by the season of populism. Now there was a difference of opinion between the Executive and the Legislative, not in duplication, but in the calendar. , and the arbitration of the RCC is the one announced today, the situation would have been different if the RCC had already agreed on the law to abolish special pensions, approved by Parliament, and we would have had funds for a considerable increase in allowances. The resources do not exist, but the Government will discuss what options it has in the future after we see the motivation of the ICR. We guarantee that allocations will double, but not immediately, but in stages. “Gorghiu told Agerpres.
CCR: Law that rejects the GEO on the gradual increase of allowances for children – constitutional
It rejected, as unfounded, the exception of unconstitutionality formulated by the Romanian Government and considered unconstitutional the Law of rejection of the Emergency Ordinance of the Government 123/2020 that modifies article 3 of the Law 61/1993 of Assignment, in relation to the criticisms formulated. status for children “, is shown in the record of the decision.
On August 19, the Honorable Chamber of Deputies rejected, as a decision-making body, Ordinance 123/2020, which modifies and completes article 3 of Law 61/1993, in order to gradually increase the amount of the allowance for children .
According to GEO 123/2020, the gradual increase in the amount of the allowance per child would occur as follows: “the difference between the amount provided by Law No. 14/2020 and the amount granted in July will increase by 20%. from 2020, respectively between 300 lei and 156 lei for children from 2 to 18 years old and between 600 lei and 311 lei for disabled children from 2 to 18 years old, as well as for children up to 2 years old, the increase applies to the rights of August 2020, and for the period 2021 – 2022 twice a year, from January 1 to July 1 of each year; as of 2023 it is proposed to continue the process of increasing the amount of the provision with the average inflation rate annual ”.
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