Another PSD leader attacks the government spokesman on the capping of food prices: “Mrs. Dogioiu will no longer speak outside the job description”

PSD deputy Adrian Căciu, a former minister in the Ciuca and Ciolacu governments, claims that no decision was made in the coalition regarding the elimination of the ceiling for the basic foods and asks the Government's spokesman, Ioana Ene Dogioiu, who stated that the decision was taken by the coalition. apologies. “

Previously, on Saturday, another PSD deputy, Mihai Fifor, insisted that the Social Democrats did not agree to eliminate the capping of prices for the basic food products, as there is no subject at the coalition meetings.

“Mrs. Dogioiu should apologize publicly! And in the future they will no longer speak outside the job description! Besides the fact that she was contradicted by leaders of the ruling coalition but also by the government ministers (see Miruţă's statement), Mrs. Dogioiu spoke about the ruling coalition, no one. Only in the name of the Government! At food! ”, Wrote Adrian Căciu, on Saturday night, on his Facebook page.

And Căciu, like Fifor, argues that the ceiling remains necessary under the conditions of a high level of inflation. “In essence, given that Ilie Bolojan managed to increase inflation by 73.7% in just two months, from 5.7% to 9.9% (plus 4.2 percentage points), it is necessary to continue at least until inflation reaches 5%.”

“Anyone who tells you that the measure of mind has not worked. Or, you know, a little influenced (to be understood by materially interested) by the great players who want to skip the poor! Do you not get?

The government and the PSD, in different positions

Prices for basic foods will increase from October 1, after the ruling coalition has decided, “Without any opposite opinion”, to give up the ceiling of the commercial addition, the Government spokesman, Ioana Ene Dogioiu, told HotNews.

“The decision of the non -freeing of prices to the basic foods was taken by the ruling coalition. The coalition decided, without any contrary, that the three -month extension of the ceiling was to be the last because it caused economic distortions both at the level of the producers and the traders,” said the spokesman of the Government, Ioana Dogioiu.

But the PSD does not agree with a possible renunciation of the ceiling of the commercial addition in the case of basic foods, Sorin Grindeanu announced on Saturday. The interim president of the PSD also says that this decision was not discussed in the ruling coalition.

Grindeanu wrote on his Facebook page that Romania needs “stimulating investments, ideas that will bring an extra in the economy”, “not experiments and austerity on account of the many”.

What happens from October 1

The measure of the ceiling of the commercial addition to the basic products expires on September 30. The measure was first taken in June 2023, when Premier was Marcel Ciolacu (PSD).

Previously, Hotnews wrote on Friday that Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan does not agree with the extension of the ceiling since October 1.

The extension of the ceiling would not have an impact on the budget, according to the same sources, being the commercial addition – that is, the merchant's profit. PSD sources with which Hotnews discussed claim that if the measure is not prolonged this will be reflected in inflation, which will increase by 2-3%.

List of products and foods for which the addition is applied for the present

Until September 30, 17 categories of products and foods have the commercial addition capped at no more than 5%:

1. Simple white bread with weight between 300-500 grams, without specialties
2. Magiun up to 350 grams.
3. Consumer milk 1 l, 1.5%fat except UHT
4. Cheese cheese bulk cow
5. Simple cow's milk yogurt, 3.5% fat, with maximum weight 200 grams
6. White wheat flour “000” to 1 kg
7. Mălai up to 1 kg
8. Chicken eggs caliber m
9. Sunflower oil up to 2 l
10. Fresh chicken – chicken meat, in applying the present emergency ordinance, means: whole chicken, chicken cutlery, whole chicken with bone and chicken wings, standard version.
11. Fresh pork – pork, in applying this emergency ordinance, means: pork, pork with bone and bone, pork.
12. Fresh bulk vegetables – fresh bulk vegetables, in applying the present emergency ordinance, means: tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, dried beans, carrots, bianca peppers and peppers, garlic.
13. Fresh bulk fruits – fresh bulk fruits, in applying this emergency ordinance, means red apples and Golden apples, plums, pears, table grapes.
14. Fresh whitish potatoes
15. White Sugar Tos up to 1 kg
16. Cream- 12% fat
17. Butter up to 250 grams