Victor Ponta presented his presidential program. Among the measures, “a political morality regarding the freezing” of taxes

Victor Ponta, an independent candidate for the presidential elections in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, presented his presidential program “Romania in the first place”, on Sunday, and the main promised economic measures are to regain confidence in the government by establishing a political agreement regarding the freezing of VAT and other taxes, stopping the import of agri-food products from Ukraine, for the purpose of Agriculture, for the purpose of Romania, Agriculture and construction, according to Agerpres.

“First of all, to regain confidence, a political morality regarding the freezing of VAT and other taxes until December 31, 2026. The confidence must be regained. In order to regain confidence, you need this political agreement to give stability and predictability. The second measure, a political decision that holds the President, the President, At least until December 31, 2025, so that this year we can relaunch the production and farmers in Romania.

What did he say about the facilities in IT, agriculture and construction

He claims that the government has committed “a fatal mistake” when it eliminated these facilities.

“From June 1, the new government has to return quickly to a fatal mistake made on January 1, when it removed the IT facilities, agriculture and construction, three engines that were bringing development, brought taxes to the budget, hired people, and which by removing the facilities lose their competitiveness. The big international companies, and in the construction, the Romanian companies will accept the status of subcontractors for the companies in Austria, Turkey, Italy, which have the financial power and support of their own government to work in Romania ”, continued Victor Ponta.

The former PSD prime minister claims that for the first three months we have “the biggest deficit in the history of Romania, 2.3% for three months. 9 billion euros already in the budget, given that the pensions were frozen, the salaries were frozen, the allowances were frozen, the taxes and taxes were increased”.

“We hope to have a legitimate president, a new and competent government, to stop this unprecedented crisis. Cap the price of energy, which has produced serious dysfunctions in the market, has been delayed by the elections, but there is no strategy for the moment of raising the ceiling (…). There is no impact study that happens in energy, in RCA, in many other fields, ”added Victor Ponta.

He estimates that foreign investments “will continue to decrease.”

“Foreign investments have decreased and will continue to decrease for a very simple reason, no one wants to bring money to a country that stays in the elections and changes the tax legislation on December 31. There is no such thing, nobody trusts Romania's stability and predictability,” said Victor Ponta.

Victor Ponta, who also applied for the 2014 presidential elections, was registered in the 2025 race as an independent and was excluded from the PSD, the party that he led in the past and on the lists of which he obtained a deputy mandate at the elections of December 1, 2024. Antonescu.