Coalition meeting convened by Grindeanu, against the backdrop of the blockage caused by the PSD amendment regarding aid for pensioners

The president of PSD, Sorin Grindeanu, has convened a meeting of the governing coalition for Thursday morning at 10:00, in his office at the Chamber of Deputies. This comes after the meeting of the joint budget committees was suspended indefinitely due to disagreements over an amendment from the social democrats regarding the social package.

Leaders of the coalition parties are invited to the meeting, including Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan from PNL, to discuss the budget project for the year 2026. This convening comes after, on Wednesday, the debates in the parliamentary budget-finance committees were blocked, following the rejection of a PSD amendment regarding social measures.

The leader of the AUR senators, Petrișor Peiu, explained on Digi24 that the blockage in the joint budget committees occurred because, despite the initial discussions with the social democrats, the two parties were supposed to support each other's amendments, Sorin Grindeanu wanted to push only his own modifications to the budget law project.

Thus, the understanding would have been that AUR would support the PSD amendment regarding the exemption from CASS, while the social democrats would have to vote for the AUR amendments regarding the reinstatement of scholarships for students and pupils, as well as the reinstatement of the doctoral grant.

We remind that at the time of the vote for the budget increase of the Ministry of Labor by 1.1 billion lei, AUR chose not to vote, causing a procedural blockage and the rejection of the amendment.