Bolojan says under what conditions “he would leave tomorrow” from the head of the Government

“If I knew that a government with miraculous solutions was coming, I would leave tomorrow. It's an honor to be the Prime Minister of Romania, but it's a difficult task, especially with subordinates who don't keep their word,” Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said on Tuesday evening, stressing that for Romania, following PSD's decision to withdraw its political support, “there will certainly be some losses, from increases in financing costs to influence on the stock markets.”.

In an interview on Pro TV News, the prime minister was asked if people hate him or if they understood the government's measures to reduce the budget deficit that affected their living standards.

“Certainly there are people who understand these things. But there are rightfully many Romanians who are dissatisfied because their purchasing power was inevitably affected, and I thank them for going through this difficult situation and who perhaps do not understand all these budgetary mechanisms. Why? Because for years the political world promised what it could not offer under normal conditions, we promised different rights, we sometimes increased salaries, sometimes pensions, we tolerated losses at state companies on debts, on money we didn't have. Or, for those debts we are now paying enormous amounts, and no matter which government comes, its budget space is very small”, declared the head of the government.

“And if I knew that a government would come tomorrow that has some solutions to solve all the problems, it wouldn't be a problem for me to leave this position tomorrow, because please believe me, besides, of course, the honor of being the Prime Minister of Romania and working for our country, and for me that matters a lot, otherwise it's a very difficult position and especially in conditions where you have a partner or people inside who don't keep their word, who don't do their duty, who participate in a a meeting where something is established after which they say totally different things in public, who are constantly playing off-side and with the handbrake pulled, it is not very easy to keep the balance in a coalition with four parties, with complicated histories, in a country like Romania that overlaps with several crises: our deficit, the economic problems in Europe, plus the increase in fuel prices as a result of the Gulf War”, he continued.

The Prime Minister also showed that, “when the Social Democratic Party generated such a crisis, it basically lit a fuse, without calculating where that fuse will detonate”.

“There will certainly be some losses for Romania, from increases in financing costs to influence on the stock market. If for three months you announce that we will change the prime minister and there will no longer be the government, the government machinery, which does not work out of enthusiasm, but needs some impulses to work, in conditions where it no longer knows who will be a minister or another, its rent decreases. Or, in these conditions, you have practically affected the performance of the government. And a government which has no authority, think that it does not deliver what is needed in Romania and we have some pressure to solve problems that are acute”, added Ilie Bolojan.

President Nicușor Dan called the coalition parties for consultations, after the PSD withdrew its support for Bolojan.

The consultations of the head of state with the leaders of the parties in the governing coalition will take place throughout the day on Wednesday, April 22, at the Cotroceni Palace.

Sources from the PSD told HotNews that, after the discussion in Cotroceni, a meeting of the Political Bureau of the PSD will take place, if a consensus is not reached in Cotroceni, through which the decision to resign the ministers will be confirmed. Then, on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning, if no way is found, the PSD ministers will submit their resignations to the prime minister.