PSD accuses Bolojan of delaying the economic stimulus package: “Five months of indecision and procrastination”
Sorin Grindeanu and Ilie Bolojan. Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
PSD claims that the current economic situation could have been avoided if the package to stimulate the economy, proposed by the Social Democrats, had been adopted five months ago, a delay which is attributed to Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan.
“The PSD program to stimulate the economy is becoming a reality after five months of indecision and procrastination on the part of Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan. With certainty, at least part of the current situation could have been avoided if the economic stimulation package had been adopted five months ago, since it was proposed by the PSD. The deficit can be reduced not only by cuts at any cost, from anyone, without mercy, without dialogue, without reason, but also by increasing revenues as a result of the increase the economy, social trust and consumption”, reads a PSD press release, quoted by Agerpres.
The social democrats remind that there are already five months of declining consumption, being the longest period of this type since the economic crisis of 2009-2010.
“Unlike then, now, neither America nor Europe are in crisis. Romania is still the country with the highest inflation in the EU, 8.6%, far from the next. No one in good faith can dispute that Romania has lost money, time, jobs and trust. And people are suffering,” the statement says.
To Ilie Bolojan, the PSD blames him for not taking into account good ideas just because they belonged to the social democrats.
“If Prime Minister Bolojan had listened to and understood PSD's criticisms, many of his excessive, arbitrary and deeply harmful measures would not have existed. With the adoption of PSD's economic stimulus measures, Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan seems to have finally understood the need to protect the population and reduce inflation. PSD welcomes and supports the mechanism he announced regarding the cap on gas, following the model that PSD also proposed for essential foods”, it is also stated in the quoted statement.
The measures announced by Bolojan
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Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan announced on Wednesday that an economic recovery package will be presented to the social partners in the coming days during a meeting of the Economic and Social Council.
The economic recovery package contains measures that are intended, among other things, to support large investments and boost exports. Also, the Government wants, after the liberalization of gas prices, to introduce an administered price for domestic consumers, so that the bills are not higher than before.
“The economic recovery package will be presented to the social partners on Friday. It contains tax credit solutions for companies, support schemes for large investments, for areas where we have trade deficits and guarantee schemes. I thank all colleagues who worked on this package”, said Ilie Bolojan.
He also announced that the Government has prepared three draft ordinances on simplifying the bureaucracy in obtaining approvals and authorizations by companies.
“One is aimed at simplifying the obtaining of environmental approvals, where the deadlines will be shortened substantially, from 90 to 60 days. The second project is related to the simplification of obtaining fire safety permits, in a maximum of 30 days. The third is related to the simplification of approvals for large investments. On the one hand, the tariffs are halved, the deadlines are halved, and the threshold of 2 million euros is raised to 5 million euros for obtaining this opinion”, stated the head of the Government.
