Loading ...‘That’s why, we are trying to improve this budget, by using such instruments at the disposal of the Parliament’, Geoana stated, also adding that if the government proves flexibility, the Social Democrats will be constructive.
‘The fact that surprising majorities existed in the committees approving reasonable amendments, amendments that represented attempts to an improved transparency, to a more predictable and more useful distribution of the public funds, of the Romanian contributor’s money, is a sign of Democratic health in the Romanian Parliament.
That’s why I am positive we will have surprising majorities in the budget-finance committee and in the plenary session of the Parliament too to approve useful amendments. After all, if I want more money to be directed to those with small incomes, this should not be regarded as only something that PSD wants, for it is only a matter of common sense’, the Senate Speaker Mircea Geoana said at the end of the meeting with the chairman of the PSD National Council Adrian Nastase and the party’s honorary chairman Ion Iliescu.
He also added that the two apparently contradictory proposals related to the increase in the pension point and the cut in social contributions have set the grounds for a quite interesting economic, financial and political debate.
‘That’s why, we recommend to our colleagues to come with a more coherent and more realistic approach. I cannot accept, as a Social Democratic leader and as a Romanian citizen as well, a cut in the pension point from 43.2 percent as it was in 2009, in the same conditions of economic downturn, down to 39 percent, which is the figure stipulated in the budget bill for 2010. I cannot accept the Romanian pensioners to be punished so severely, even with the crisis, we should at least maintain the figure last year’, Geoana said.
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