Former President Emil Constantinescu criticizes the budget cuts and threatens USR with criminal complaints: the Levant Institute, on the list of abolition
Former President Emil Constantinescu declares himself revolted by the decision of the ruling coalition to abolish the Levant's Institute, his soul creation, and threaten to sue the USR, the party that proposed to close the institution.
Emil Constantinescu threatens USR with judgment / photo source: Emil Constantinescu FB
The revolt of the former president of Romania, Emil Constantinescu, compared to the austerity plan
Emil Constantinescu is involved in the controversy of budgetary cuts at state institutions. The former president is dissatisfied that the Levant's Institute, his soul creation, is on the list of those proposed for abolition. And threatens to sue the USR, the party that came with the idea. But the ruling coalition is determined to cut into living meat. In addition to the institutes with directors paid better than the ministers, they want to abolish or combine other agencies or state companies, according to observatornews.ro
At 85, the former president gave up the discretion that characterized him from the end of the mandate. The stake – the Levant Institute, created in 2017 at his insistence and now proposed for abolition, in the race of budget discounts.
“For eight years, since the establishment of the Institute, a political formation, the USR, has violently attacked the Institute as a political program.”says Emil Constantinescu, the former president of Romania, according to the quoted source.
“There are some of the institutions for which USR has had over time including legislative initiatives.says Stefan Hatie, USR senator.
Former head of state threatens USR with criminal complaints and accuses the compromise party
“We will take an attitude in a legal plan, through a criminal complaint and for compensation for compromise, for this action of harassing the staff and at the same time to install hatred against the Institute”says Emil Constantinescu, former president of Romania.
It is not for the first time that the Levant Institute is accused of working only as a pretext for sinecles. In the ultracentral headquarters, near the Arc de Triomphe, the 27 employees work on the main mission of the institution: cultural diplomacy.
“The Institute has an academic audience, a high audience, because this is the area of expertise. We cannot address the general public”says Cătălin-Stefan Popa, interim director of the Levant Institute.
For his work, the director receives a monthly gross salary of 12,714 lei. And the annual budget amounts to just over 2 million lei.
Emil Constantinescu, critics for political leaders
Emil Constantinescu criticizes the decision makers for the lack of long -term strategy and their own vision on the future of the country. The former president of Romania mentions that he would no longer run for the first position in the state and draws attention to the level of political leaders worldwide.
“ÎIn Romania, in the Romanian public opinion, everything is destroyed by Băşcălie. At one point, if you want to destroy something, you do not need arguments, you do not need research, you use a joke. (…) Because I was the president of the National Council of Rectors in Romania and I knew all the Romanian elite very well, I did a study, as much as the administration change, so it reached 15,000. (…) These specialists existed. He was not a 15,000 government, but if anyone said “ha-ha-ha” it's over. Something was laughing. I have formed an academic government ”, said Emil Constantinescu.
