The Senate debates and votes on Monday on the simple motion against the Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja.
The motion titled „The Minister of Energy – a leader without direction, between green promises and gray realities” was submitted on March 26 in plenary by the leader of the AUR senators, Petrisor Peiu. The chairman of the meeting, Laurentiu Plaesu (AUR), found the legality of the approach and announced that the motion would be debated and voted on in plenary on Monday, March 31.
The 45 signatories of the motion (28 AUR senators, 10 S.O.S. Romania and 7 POT) claim that „the Energy sector, vital for any country, represents a hat too big for Minister Burduja’s head” and demand his resignation, accusing „disastrous management, which has cost us dearly”.
„Romania is facing a chronic deficit of electricity production capacities. Mr. Burduja publicly admitted this problem, but his actions did not even remotely match his statements. Projects intended to increase production were prioritized incorrectly, and those that could be easily implemented with minimal expense were blocked by a lack of political will. Simply put, Minister Burduja preferred to sign direct awards worth many billions of euros, without the transparency associated with a public tender, completely ignoring projects that are easier and faster to implement and, above all, require much lower financing,” the text of the motion states.
Minister Burduja is also accused of „arbitrary allocation of public resources to private companies, without competitive procedures” and of „defective management of European and national funds”.
Senators from AUR, S.O.S. Romania and POT also refer to „the ministry’s inability to reduce electricity costs for the population and the industrial sector”.
„On countless occasions, Minister Burduja has touted the idea that Romania has one of the lowest electricity prices in the European Union. But here is the reality: in the latest statistics published by Eurostat, which present prices for the first semester of 2024, Romania has the fourth highest electricity price for households, almost double that of neighboring states – Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia – countries that do not benefit from such an abundance of energy resources as Romania,” the quoted document also reads.
AGERPRES
