Siegfried Mureșan, the designated prime minister, promises increases in pensions and salaries, but also announces layoffs in the public sector

The finance section of the government program with which Siegfired Mureșan, the prime minister-designate by President Nicușor Dan, is going before Parliament on Wednesday is more a collection of slogans and aspirations than a concrete plan. Nevertheless, we can note that Mureșan talks about increases in pensions and salaries, as well as reducing the number of positions in the administration, based on the “little train ordinance” that the current government has failed to fully implement.

The program made public by Mureșan is, as I was saying, more a collection of slogans, most of them taken from the current government, which nevertheless contains a few concrete points: taxes will not increase, pensions and salaries will be raised, but only insofar as the budgetary balance is not affected and only with the approval of the Fiscal Council, and the provisions of the “little train ordinance” regarding layoffs in the public sector will be fully implemented.