PSD President Marcel Cholaku announced that the coalition meeting would take place on Tuesday and denied that there would be tension between the parties due to his absence from Monday’s Navy Day ceremonies. The PSD leader noted that “everyone’s first priority” is to find the best solutions for energy prices.

“I had another program yesterday, but I understood that it was the Minister of Defense,” Marcel Čolaku said of his absence from the Navy Day ceremonies in the port of Constanţa, according to News.ro. The PSD leader claimed that “this is an assumption and has no basis.”

When asked if there is tension in the government coalition, Marcel Čolaku said: “No, from my point of view there is no tension, I think the priority for everyone now is to find the best pricing solutions. to the energy industry,” the SDP leader also said.

Marcel Cholaku also said that there are two clear components: “This is the period when the energy has already been sold, and let’s look at the approach to next year, when another 75% of the energy will not be sold. (…) From the point of view of the Ministry of Finance, this is excessive taxation of producers, but they sold energy with this overtaxed 400-500 lei, and energy at this moment is consumed as much as produced.

“We have to find a technical solution for the peaks when there is no sun, for example, or there is no wind necessary for the arrival of wind energy, there are some peaks of 10 or 15% when imports must be made, but that is why we are connected to Europe”. – noted Cholak.

He said he did not think it was right to have a “huge difference in price, speculative, or rather untaxed, because the producers are taxed.” “So this is a completely free and unregulated area for quite some time,” he added.

“For example, we, the Romanian state, provide green certificates for green energy. The Romanian state issues green certificates and exports green energy from Romania, produced in Romania, these are strange things where the Ministry of Energy must come up with some proposals,” he also commented.

Marcel Cholaku also noted that they are trying to keep energy prices down.

He announced that the meeting of the ruling coalition will be held on Tuesday: “Most likely, we will have a meeting today.”

The leaders of the Coalition also met last week in the government, and political sources told HotNews.ro that the agenda of the discussions included topics such as the correction of the budget, as well as PSD’s request to regulate the energy market for domestic consumers. PSD and PNL have not reached a consensus on electricity tariffs, according to cited sources.

One of the issues that the Social Democrats want to clarify is the regulation of the energy market for household consumers. PSD’s proposal is frowned upon by liberals who refuse to return to a regulated market.

At the end of July, the Social Democrats publicly stated the need to resume discussions at the ruling coalition level regarding the application of energy and gas price regulation in Romania for a limited period. The Social Democrats have returned with such a request, submitted since the beginning of the year, and claim that “economic and social reality demands it.”

A week ago, PSD president Marcel Çolaku said that it is impossible to extend a long period of time with an extraordinary decree on energy prices, and it is necessary to take separate measures, in each area separately.

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