The Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) supports the decrease of the number of MPs to 300, „as the Romanians voted”, a „sleek” and „efficient” Government, with a maximum of 12 ministries and no more than 50 secretaries of state, given that the majority of those today „have no attributions” and „do not produce added value”, the party’s president, Deputy, MP George Simion, said on Thursday at the presentation of the government programme of this political party, called „We rebuild Romania – 15-point AUR government programme”, write Agerpres.
According to AUR, the ministries should be moved to the Palace of Parliament, in order to de-bureaucratize them and for the state to stop paying „hundreds of thousands, millions of euros” to private persons for hosting some of them.
Another point of the AUR programme aims at the unification of the localities. According to Simion, this project has been „sabotaged” by the current parties in the last 15 years.
AUR advocates for the efficiency of the spending of public money through a hierarchy of competences at the state level, without „the institutions that are in control, which suffocate the Romanian affairs”.
„No locality will have a town hall in Romania unless it has at least 5,000 inhabitants. The current town halls, the current mayors do not serve the interests of the citizens. Instead of the bureaucratic apparatus of the mayor, in a commune of 1,000 inhabitants, instead of the Town Hall, we will leave a one-stop office to work with the citizens and so, there is no need for more. There’s no need for a secretary, there’s no need for an accountant, there’s no need for nearly 500,000 party members in central and local public administration. We started, in the early 2000s, with 800,000 state employees and we ended up in this government that aims to streamline the spending of public money to have over 1.34 million employees in the public jobs. We do not mind the state employees and the professionals, on the contrary, we must encourage them. We need a hierarchy of competences at the level of the Romanian state, but we are bothered by the institutions that are in control, which are suffocating the Romanian businesses, which, because they have come into possession of a paper, do not give it out of their hands without getting anything in exchange. With all the responsibility, I tell you that we must stop the number of employments at the level of central and local administration and we must go back to where we started in the early 2000s,” George Simion said.
The AUR programme also includes the establishment of a Sovereign Wealth Fund, „as in Norway, not as in (Liviu) Dragnea’s (former PSD leader, ed. n.)”.
„That is, functional, efficient, to ensure what at the moment seems either that it is not possible or that it is not wanted. For example, completing all investments in the energy field so that Romania can be energy sovereign. This, together with other measures taken by the state leadership, such as, in the field of energy, the separation of supply distribution, can provide the necessary money that they all aim at. As many as 20 billion RON have vanished from the state budget, where do we get money from?”, the AUR president asked rhetorically.
