“External piles” of the Romanian state: employed from a town hall, paid with 4,000 euros in a consulate. Local officials became “occasion” diplomats

Hundreds of officials from mayors and ministries, detached without competition at embassies and consulates. The Romanian state transforms local officials and employees from various central institutions into “occasion diplomats”, paid in external positions.

The Romanian state transforms local officials into occasion diplomats / photo source: G4media

A number of 273 employees From central and local public institutions were, in the middle of this year, Detach in Romanian Embassy and Consultations Posts. Of these, over 50 come from local administrations, including from town halls, As is the case of an employee from Vupăr City Hall, which became overnight “representative of the Romanian state” abroad, with a salary of about 4,000 euros per month.

In addition to local officials, other detached people come from ministries, government, parliament, but also from institutions such as RA-APPS or SPP. According to data analyzed by Profit.ro, these people did not have to support any contest, being sent in external missions based on a simple order of detachment.

An example is Casandra Maria Marinescu, Romania's consul in Munich, where it has been from 2013, is detached there from Vurpăr City Hall. The information was confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Turnufatului.ro.

Initially the vice consulate of the General Consulate of Romania in Munich, now the consul, Casandra Maria Marinescu has a deadline until the end of the year to officially conclude his employment contract at Vurpăr City Hall, says the mayor of Vupăr, Mihail Lienerth.

“This is how I found it at the City Hall. It was employed by others, but it will be suspended. It has a term until the end of the year, to have time to move elsewhere. For the time being, it is employed at the town hall in the position of the public. It is not on the payment state.explains the mayor.

Casandra Marinescu received, according to the declaration of wealth submitted in 2024, 46,500 euros and 9,824 lei from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the last 12 months. That means approximately 4,000 euros net per month.

Likewise, according to previous wealth statements, Casandra Marinescu was employed by the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), before committing to Vurpăr City Hall. It received from the SRI, according to a document signed in 2013, the amount of 23,000 lei.

Interestingly, at the general consulate of Romania in Munich Consul General is Miheia-Mălina Diculescu-Bblea, and the consul is Iulian Diculescu-Bbleea, her husband.

According to a document regarding the personnel detached in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the MAE external service, at the beginning of the month of the I, 18 seconded employees from local authorities and institutions had been sent to consular rank positions and 31 held functions at Romania's consulates and missions abroad.

The route of the employees transferred outside. Conslets detached from local authorities

According to official data, 17 employees from Embassies and Consultations were seconded from SPP, 13 from RA-APPS, and others from ministries, from state or cultural institutions, but also from the radio and public television, from the Romanian Academy, the Romanian Railway Authority and even from the Clinical Hospital of the Hospital of the Hospital. Romania from Warsaw, Poland).

The routes of the employees detached in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the MAE external service can be viewed here.

The government is preparing to reduce the administrative apparatus. Restrictions for contest -free detachments

The government has announced that it is preparing a project for blocking transfers and detachments between state institutions, part of package 2 of measures, the restriction being considered necessary before it effectively proceed to reduce the device from the central public administration by about 20% (within the 3 measures package).

The law now allows employees from other ministries and institutions to be sent on a temporary mission abroad, with functions equivalent to diplomatic and consular degrees, without promoting the admission contest in the diplomatic and consular body.