Drula submits a bill to implement the results of the 2024 referendum. “The stakes are enormous”
USR deputy Cătălin Drula announced on Wednesday, October 22, that he will submit a draft law to the Parliament for the implementation of the results of the referendum organized in the Capital on November 24, 2024.
Cătălin Drula/PHOTO: Facebook
In the local referendum, the majority of Bucharesters agreed that the distribution of income taxes, as well as local taxes and fees, between the Bucharest City Hall and the sector municipalities, should be approved by the Bucharest General Council.
“Increasingly in recent years, the money contributed by the citizens of Bucharest through fees and taxes has been distributed to sectors and, more recently, to Ilfov County, which has left the Capital City Hall without resources to carry out large projects.
This is what Nicusor Dan also complained about. And last year we had that referendum which was overwhelmingly voted by the citizens of Bucharest, for a single budget of the city, from which then, at the level of the General Council, the resources are distributed, obviously, to the sectors, depending on the needs.
Right today I will submit a bill in Parliament for the implementation of this bill”declared the vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies, on RFI.
He appealed to all parties for the project to be adopted “urgent”noting that it could become law by the date of the local elections, December 7.
“It's a natural thing. That's how the Capital's budget was made until the Năstase Government got angry with Traian Băsescu, mayor of the Capital, and in 2001 the current system was introduced.
But the current system, with this financial autonomy of the sectors, as if they were separate cities, which they are not. They are some administrative subdivisions of a single city called Bucharest. And this system degraded more and more, as the power from the central level, the governments took the capital's money and distributed it in a very large proportion to the sectors and the Ilfov county.
The stake is enormous, because we have big projects to do in Bucharest. The M5 metro from Drumul Taberei must continue from Eroilor to the University and up to Pantelimon. We have a lot of investments to make in heating”said Drula.
