The first PSD attack on Ciprian Ciucu since he became general mayor. “There is always the option of submitting the mandate”

The leader of the PSD Bucharest organization and the mayor of sector 4, Daniel Băluță, criticized the general mayor of the capital Ciprian Ciucu for the post in which he said that PMB does not have money “to even cross the street”. Băluță maintains that Ciucu should have known about the city's problems since the campaign and come up with solutions, not explanations, the social democrat reminding the mayor-chief of the Capital that he has at his disposal the solution to submit the mandate.

“Bucharest is a complex city, which urgently needs solutions and not kilometer explanations which, in fact, show the inability to manage things. The General Mayor is elected to find solutions, not to complain, and if he has no solutions, there is always the option of submitting the mandate”, writes Daniel Băluță in a post published on the Facebook account of PSD Bucharest.

“To declare publicly that he has no solutions”

Băluță says that Ciucu has known what the city's problems are for a long time and that it is “absolutely inadmissible” for the general mayor to say that he cannot do anything regarding the interruption of the supply of heat for thousands of Bucharest residents.

“To come now, at the beginning of the year, with alarmist messages about bankruptcy, without presenting concrete and assumed solutions, means that you are either running away from responsibility, or that, in the campaign, you only scored politically, knowing that, in essence, you do not have the necessary vision to solve things. It is absolutely unacceptable that now, at minus 15 degrees outside, when thousands of Bucharest residents, elderly people or young people with small children, have been sitting in the cold in their apartments for weeks and without hot water, the general mayor should give accounting lessons on Facebook and tell us that he can't do anything”, continues Băluță, referring to the post of the general mayor on how he will spend the money he has available in January.

“If the general mayor is already beyond what he knew, let him publicly declare that he has no solutions and let's give the city the opportunity to have an administrator who knows what he has to do. I don't know if the people of Bucharest are still waiting for posts on Facebook or if they want an administrator focused on solutions”, concluded the leader of the Bucharest pesedists.

Ciucu: “The town hall has no money to cross the street”

During Tuesday, Mayor General Ciprian Ciucu announced that the budget that PMB has in January is 317,000,000 lei, which represents 1/12 of last year's budget, given that the state budget for 2026 has not yet been approved.

“For the current month, we received only 317 million lei. Let's have a comparison, in previous years, PMB received as follows:

• 358 million, January 2022;
• 488 million, January 2023;
• 551 million, January 2024;
• 400 million, January 2025.

Now, at the beginning of the year, PMB doesn't even have money to cross the street”, wrote Ciprian Ciucu on Facebook, adding that the town hall must pay outstanding obligations to avoid blocking the accounts.

Comparison with politicians' accounts

Then Ciucu explained how the 317 million lei will be spent.

• “75 million went only on salaries (12.5 for own, the rest for subordinates);
• 18 million goes to the public debt (rates and interests, credits made by PMB over time);
• 18 million go to the stages of litigation (Constanda, Bomax and a financial correction for the purchase of trams);
• 35 million are arrears;
• 90 million we give to STB to pay their salaries, for operation (parts, etc.) and to pay their installments to ANAF. This is from the debt of 700 million that we have at STB. For the current month alone, they asked us 163 million for the public transport service. I don't know how they will manage, but salaries will be paid. Not the contributions to ANAF for these salaries, and that amount will go into the huge lump that we keep rolling and which is growing;
• 10 million go for public transport in Ilfov, from the debt of 21. million that we have. It seems absurd to me that PMB should pay approx. 150 million per year for transport from Ilfov, but this is a topic I will return to after I have settled on all the mobility policy “thought” and applied at the moment.
• 30 million go to Termoenergetica. They asked for double. I hope they can manage from the proceeds. Salaries for January will be paid. I remind you that the public debt we have at Termoenergetica is 590 million. And it grows;
• 8.5 million will go to children with disabilities as incentives (actually they are social aids, I don't know why Ms. Firea called them, when she decided on them, “incentives”). And I will be cursed by disabled adults, who have not received their money since March 2024, who should also receive approx. 13 million per month. What to do, I have nothing to do, these aids are not budget-friendly at this moment;
• 6 million will inevitably go to public lighting, it's winter, we have to pay for electricity and the night is long, we can't turn off public lighting;
• 3 million for the seismic risk, because our workers are leaving the construction sites and it is better to complete the works started than to let them deteriorate;
• another 3 million go to the Street Administration to ensure the operation of the traffic lights and to have for current repairs.”

“And so, of the 317 million, we still have approx. 20 million left (Absurd! There are politicians who have more in their accounts…) And this money will evaporate quickly in the next two weeks because I expect other emergencies that we have not already learned about and that our accounts will not be blocked”, concluded Ciprian Ciucu.