The government gives money to the parties, not the employees

The Romanian Government is accused of paying 79 Millions subsidies+577 million refunds from election campaigns for political parties instead of paying the salaries of the employees of the Permanent Electoral Authority.

Bogdan Șchiop, president of the National Federation of Administration Trade Unions (FNSA), writes in a statement sent to the editorial office.ro:

3.6 million lei for paying salaries or 79 million subsidies+577 million refunds from election campaigns for political parties?

A simple choice for the Government of Romania: Money for political parties, of course!

Employees who have worked to ensure the legality and correctness of the electoral process, and now work for the settlement and reimbursement of hundreds of millions of lei for political parties, are treated with contempt and are disregarded by the Government, who has no hesitation when it comes to budgetary allocations to political parties, for which there is money. This clearly highlights the contempt for the employee and his work, the supply of the accounts of the political parties becoming budgetary priorities and the employees are actually dispensable expenses.

The FSI has noticed, for a long time and often, the fact that political interests will generate dysfunctions of the institutions of the Romanian state, and the situation of the employees who work within the AEP comes to certify this. The priority budgetary allocation to the political parties, the fact that it receives in front of the citizen and the employee, represents another proof of the contempt for employees.

If the Government of Romania believes that the political parties are more important than the work carried out by the employees of the institutions, then it must be prepared by the consequences of this election. We request the allocation, in an emergency regime, of the funds for the payment of the salaries of the AEP employees! Or… .sit a political party makes a donation to the state budget from the amount it receives.