Romania\u2019s Liberal (PNL) prime minister-designate Siegfried Mure\u0219an unveiled the main guidelines of his governing strategy, which, while broadly maintaining the substance of the economic reforms initiated by his predecessor Ilie Bolojan, also align in several respects with the conditions set by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) for potentially supporting a government.<\/p>\n
Despite strong criticism from PSD leader Sorin Grindeanu, Mure\u0219an said he remained open to negotiations and expected to meet president Nicu\u0219or Dan after finalizing his governing program and ministerial team.<\/p>\n
Reducing the public debt-to-GDP ratio, continuing the Bolojan government\u2019s measures to streamline public spending and pursuing the listing of state-owned enterprises are among Mure\u0219an\u2019s priorities that are unlikely to attract immediate PSD support. However, PSD has so far focused its criticism mainly on what it describes as \u201causterity\u201d, rather than directly opposing the objectives of debt reduction, spending efficiency or SOE listings.<\/p>\n
Other guidelines presented by Mure\u0219an are closer to demands made by the Social Democrats, including measures to reduce electricity prices, support domestic capital, pursue fiscal relaxation within the limits of fiscal consolidation and seek stronger financial support from the European Union.<\/p>\n
I have always considered that social policies must be an area that a pro-European right-wing party, like the National Liberal Party, focuses on seriously<\/p>\n
\u201cI have always considered that social policies must be an area that a pro-European right-wing party, like the National Liberal Party, focuses on seriously. As such, we will pay attention to social policies and what I will propose is the following: public sector salaries and pensions have stagnated in recent years; an increase is needed. We will consider an increase in public sector salaries and an indexation of pensions,\u201d Mure\u0219an said, quoted by News.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mure\u0219an also included a clear message to president Nicu\u0219or Dan on foreign policy, stressing the importance he attaches to the transatlantic partnership and relations with the United States.<\/p>\n \u201cSpecial attention will be given to the transatlantic partnership, the relationship with the US, a relationship that we want to be as close as possible, as consolidated as possible from an economic, commercial, cultural and all security aspects,\u201d the prime minister-designate said.<\/p>\n Mure\u0219an said that, after finalizing the governing programme and selecting his ministerial team, he would request a meeting with president Nicu\u0219or Dan to present the programme.<\/p>\n The emerging strategy therefore combines continued fiscal consolidation and structural reforms with a more accommodating position on social spending and eventual fiscal relaxation. This creates some overlap with PSD\u2019s stated demands, although it remains unclear whether the convergence will be sufficient to secure Social Democrat support for a PNL-USR-UDMR government without PSD participation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Romania\u2019s Liberal (PNL) prime minister-designate Siegfried Mure\u0219an unveiled the main guidelines of his governing strategy, which, while broadly maintaining the substance of the economic reforms initiated by his predecessor Ilie Bolojan, also align in several respects with the conditions set by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) for potentially supporting a government. Despite strong criticism from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}