Social Democrat MP Mihai Fifor said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan has once again sidelined Parliament, adopting in the government two emergency ordinances that reshape public administration and set the country’s economic direction.
„Ilie Bolojan has once again sidelined the Romanian Parliament. This time, through two emergency ordinances that redraw public administration and set the country’s economic direction. We are not talking about minor technical adjustments, but about interventions with structural impact. And the choice of instrument – an emergency ordinance instead of a law debated in Parliament – says everything about the governing style. Fear of people. Fear of dialogue. Fear of debate. When you are convinced of the correctness of your measures, you go to Parliament, defend them, and assume the vote. When you choose ordinances for major issues, you bypass democratic deliberation. And this is not efficiency. It is a blind desire for control,” Fifor wrote on Facebook.
According to the PSD lawmaker, these two packages represent „a political compromise” between the measures supported by the four parties in the governing coalition.
„Many of them do not belong to PSD, and with some of them PSD does not agree at all. They were adopted at the insistence of the prime minister or other coalition parties. PSD accepted this compromise in order to secure several very important measures for citizens and for the economy. We finally have an economic stimulus program, six months after PSD proposed it in the coalition. Had it been adopted in September, Romania would not be in technical recession today. As the National Bank governor also said, stimulating investments is the healthiest way out of recession. We stopped blind cuts in the administration: there were no cuts for doctors and teachers, nor for institutions that had already reduced spending last year. Without PSD’s intervention, the package would have meant only austerity. Instead, the decision to return to a larger number of management positions in the public sector belongs to the prime minister,” Mihai Fifor said.
He added that under the Ciolacu Government these positions had been explicitly reduced, but now that limitation has been removed.
„The prime minister who talks about eliminating sinecures is, through an executive decision, validating the inflation of management levels. The administrative base is compressed while the top of the hierarchy is relaxed. This combination – bypassing Parliament and strengthening leadership positions – is not a sign of political strength, but one of fear and arrogance, and arrogance is no substitute for intelligence. Quite the opposite,” the Social Democrat added.
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