On Monday, mayors of communes and municipalities asked the government for money for salaries and payment of special pensions. Local mayors presented Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke with a document that analyzes the salaries of civil servants in city halls compared to the salaries of construction workers.

According to a document presented by Digi24, the mayors who showed Nicolae Chuke “injustice” in the town halls of communes in Romania. The Dorel scheme shows how an “unskilled builder” earns a salary close to that of a deputy mayor.

So, according to the document, “unskilled builder Dorel” has a net salary after taxes of 3,215 lei, while the deputy mayor’s net income after taxes is 3,650 lei.

See the document here.

The mayors asked Prime Minister Nikolay Chuke to apply the Administrative Code and pay them special pensions. “The return from the budget is not, as stated, 600 million, because this allowance will be received by someone who is no longer in the position of mayor, or many have died, many are very young. To recognize this position would be a moral issue, and Mr. Prime Minister recognized that this was a political decision and said that he would raise this issue at the first meeting of the coalition.

The UDMR stated on its face that it supports these demands of ours. (…) We have one more, Mr. Cholak. He said he doesn’t like it, the public doesn’t like it, you (the press editor) don’t like it. And I said that you will scream for a month, and then you will be silent. We have mayors who cannot get into a center for the elderly because they have nothing to do with their 2,000 lei pension. I think the government has this duty because I told them that we will raise the flag in the elections and if you don’t see me now, I might not see you next time,” said Dorinel Soare, the mayor of the commune Nicholas

Representatives of the Association of Municipalities of Romania and the Association of Municipalities met in the Government with Prime Minister Nicolae Čuke and Minister of Regional Development Čeke Attila.