Grindeanu asks the colleagues in the PSD to give up a facility that they were abusing, after a journalistic investigation.
Sorin Grindeanu, Saturday, June 7, 2025, Timis. Inquam Photos/Virgil Simonescu
PSD president Sorin Grindeanu reacted following the investigation published by Free Europe, which showed that hundreds of parliamentarians receive significant amounts from the state for rent, although they have housing in Bucharest or Ilfov.
“I asked all the parliamentary colleagues to give up the amounts from the rent settlements as a matter of fact that they have a property in the Capital!”, Grindeanu said, in a Facebook post, according to the Media Page.
The PSD leader also said that “these settlements do not find any justification in the conditions in which, these days, we discuss measures to reduce the budget deficit and public expenses!
“I want the social-democratic parliamentarians to be the first to give an example of compassion and restriction of the expenses that involve public money, even if the law allows such settlements!”, Said Grindeanu.
In the same message published on Friday, Grindeanu also transmitted that he requested that the law that allows the settlement of these expenses to be modified, in an emergency, in this parliamentary session, “so that such settlements are no longer possible.”
“The economy of Romania needs compassion, and politicians must be the first to be solidarity!”, Concluded the PSD president.
The investigation of the Free Europe published on June 11, 2025 revealed that 270 of the 331 deputies benefit from rent settlements in Bucharest. But some of the 270 already have homes in the capital or in the Ilfov. Moreover, some of them are people wearing business in real estate.
According to the investigation, six PSD deputies live in the Capital and receive a rent for rent within 50% of the gross allowance. These are Adrian Câciu, Vlad-Florentin Drînceanu, Mirela-Florence Matichescu, George-Adrian Popa, Ştefan-Ovidiu Popa and Mihai-Viorel Fifor.
And from gold there are six deputies: Ştefăniţă Avrămescu, Florin-Eugen Cîrligea, Mugur Mihăescu, Silviu-Florin Oancea, Dumitru Tilea, Florin Bogdan Velcescu.
