The 500,000 budget dismissal plan

The presidential gold candidate, George Simion, said, in an interview for Digi24 TV, that he supports the efficiency of the administrative apparatus, respectively the reduction of the number of budgets by 500,000.

‘The situation is dramatic and it will be very difficult to avoid bankruptcy and I prefer to understand everyone from now on that I am not a fool, that we have no bad intentions, the fact that some unfriendly measures will have to be taken, which Marcel Ciolacu has only reminded, and all the governments of the last years have reminded them. For example, an efficiency of the administrative apparatus. In the Senate of Romania I have heard protests from the employees, different things. They are employed here in the Senate, at the commissions we lead, but not employed by us, but were in the structure of the Senate, which are disturbed when they are asked for an activity report. This situation is in the local and central administration, ‘said George Simion.

Asked if he will support measures to reduce the budgetary apparatus, respectively how many budgets he should leave, Simion showed that they should return to the figure of 800,000, as they were in 2000, adding that it will not be about teachers, doctors, firefighters.

‘How many people from the local and central administration, and here I mean the party members, because we are not talking about teachers, we are not talking about medical staff, we have a deficit to firefighters, to the police, to the military. We are talking about the fact that in the early 2000s there were 800,000 employees in the state sector and now there are 1,300,000. We should get back to 800,000, because in these 25 new years we benefit from technology, digitization and we can take advantage of technical progress. But I want to not alarm someone by saying that this will happen the next day. During five years we have a government program that provides for the two -thirds reduction of local and central institutions. It’s a radical plan. (…) I want to be actively involved in the policies of the future government, in the way the country will be run, in certain nominations to key ministries. Yes, our government program is, in my opinion, the only solution to get out of the crisis and is not far from the solutions that the other parties have proposed, but which they have not implemented, « said the gold leader.

Asked if he would oppose the increase in tax, he confirmed: ‘categorically’.

‘For me, any tax increase means recession. This is not the solution, not the suffering of the entrepreneurial environment. (…) I will advocate for reducing labor tax at the minimum wage level. (…) I think we have to broaden the tax base, « said George Simion.