PSD Labor Minister Marius Budai contradicts Minister of Investments and European Funds Marcel Bolos (PNL), who talked about reducing the number of state employees and reducing their salaries to cover a 20 billion hole in the budget.

• “I tell you simply and directly, as long as we, the PSD, are in the government, this option is excluded.
• It is true that we must do everything we can to identify and reduce waste, and we need efficient spending of public funds.
• But we, the PSD, have never had such an option in 30 years of post-December history, and we will not agree to such an option.
• So, from the point of view of the PSD, a reduction in the salaries of state employees is not excluded under any circumstances,” said Marius Budaj on Antena 3 on Monday.

Chuke also rules out a cut in the salaries of civil servants due to the 20 billion dollar hole in the budget

Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke said Monday in Fokshan that he had asked ministers to present him with a decision to cut budget spending by Wednesday, but he ruled out cuts in public sector salaries or investment.

• “We discussed and asked at the press conference after the meeting of the Politburo, and now I am asking everyone who delivers information and asks questions to representatives of the authorities, so that we do not incite completely unfounded panic among the population.
• Each of these options is discussed during the consideration of the state budget, and of course, each of them can be an analysis, but I gave a task in the government that each option be discussed, not about salaries and about investments. .”, Prime Minister Nikolae Chuke said on Monday.

The Prime Minister stated that the Government is not considering new tax increases in the next period, but rather better tax collection.

At the same time, the Prime Minister noted that the governors are responsible to the Romanians and cannot scare them with job losses or salary cuts, and in this sense, he asked the ministers to present to them by Wednesday, April 12, proposals to reduce costs.

• “At the moment we are not discussing new taxes. I take responsibility for any decision I make, and it’s a matter of responsibility. This is our responsibility to the Romanians.
• We cannot come now and scare them by saying that they will be out of work or without pay. Because the government has a solution.
• I asked the ministers to come by Wednesday and present to me the basic situation, how they can calculate their costs. This is absolutely normal.
• There are a number of budget items that can be managed so that we reduce costs.” said the Prime Minister quoted by Agerpres.

Marcel Bolosh spoke about the reduction in the number of government employees and the reduction of salaries among them

The Minister of Investments and European Funds, Marcel Bolosh, announced on Antena 3 on Saturday for the first time that in order to balance the budget and fulfill the tasks adopted through the PNRR, the government can revise the salaries of public servants. or even reduce their number.

“Now we have expenses for salaries in the budget system of about 110 billion lei. The condition that we have in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan is related to sustainability, the availability of all the experience and, let’s say, this negotiation procedure for the reform of special pensions, and how the European Commission poses the issue of sustainability in relation to these options, we said that maybe we are going to revise salaries in the budget system, or to a potential reduction in the number of budget employees, but the coalition will decide this at the right time,” Bolosh said.

The government has started to cut spending by 20 billion lei, which was confirmed by Finance Minister Adrian Cachiu after revealing that they made a mistake in the 2023 budget, as HotNews.ro also revealed.