Loading ...Presenting his viewpoint on the ways by which Romania can get out of the crisis, candidate of the Green Party Remus Cernea said that the country needed a lawful government and that the current political class was not capable of offering such a thing. He made it clear that, in a situation of deep going crisis, one had to consider a fiscal relaxation.
Candidate of the Socialist Alliance Party Constantin Rotaru said that the current system generated crises and opined that one had to give up the capitalist system in order to get out of the present-day situation. He also suggested setting up a ministry of planning.
Representative of the Romanian Ecologist Party Ovidiu Iane emphasized the fact that the political group he was a member of wanted the flat tax to be maintained, tax cuts for producers of energy by means of alternative methods, the reduction of the VAT for basic food, the exemption from taxes of the people who implement the concept of the green house.
As for the fiscal policy Remus Cernea gave the example of Sweden and pleaded for exempting from certain charges the employers who do not dismiss their employees.
Rotaru said that one must give up the flat tax and in exchange recommended the progressive tax.
He also said that the revenues to the state budget must be ensured especially from the income and property tax, less from the consumer income, and pleaded for a differentiated VAT, and Ovidiu Iane appreciated that the VAT should be applied to the first or last sale and added that the flat tax must be preserved. Independent candidate Ninel Potarca said that, in the context of the crisis, the state should assume responsibility for this situation and write off the debts of the citizens and of the trading companies.
Referring to the health system, Remus Cernea pointed out the fact that the Romanians had a life expectancy which is by about ten years shorter than the one of the citizens in the West European countries and pleaded for investments in health and education. Constantin Rotaru spoke about making more efficient the spending of the public money and the removal of intermediaries in producing and supplying medicines, adding that the medical care must be free of charge.
Ovidiu Iane appreciated that the Romanians ate expensive and low-quality food and in supermarkets there was low-quality food having lots of chemicals. He emphasized the fact that hospitals must be built in partnership with the local community and Potarca appreciated that enough money was allocated to the health system, but that money was not well distributed, it was not spent on investments, the increase in the salaries of the medical staff being necessary in his opinion.
Approaching the priorities of the educational system, Remus Cernea appreciated that a massive increase in the funds meant for education, scientific research and culture was necessary, but also spoke of the necessity to restructure the educational system.
Constantin Rotaru hailed the fact that the people working with the Constitutional Court rejected the education law and appreciated that the educational system needed clear regulations for promoting people on a competence basis, for removing the alternative school books and ensuring jobs to the young graduates.
Ovidiu Iane appreciated that they should allow the development of the private education besides the state one, but that headmasters must be elected by the community and Potarca emphasized the fact that the money allocated for education must be spent efficiently so that children should learn in proper spaces and teachers should have decent salaries.
Independent candidate Eduard Manole, who was invited to the debate, was not present, but sent a release to the organizers explaining that the invitation was extended to him too late for him to take it and that he could not accept the discrimination made by the Romanian Television Company “by classifying the candidates according to the preference of its managers.” In his opinion all candidates should have been invited to the meeting.
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