The USR representatives signal that the Government’s draft on special pensions has been approved by the Senate Budget Committee, but the debate and vote have been postponed for two weeks because there is no budgetary impact.
In the opinion of USR MPs, the Government does not want to admit, in fact, that it will not eliminate any special pension and will not make any reduction in expenses with this project.
“Suspiciously, nothing appears under the budget impact heading, there is no reduction in expenditure or increase in income in the short, medium and long term. The government was obliged to make this evaluation, and I don’t understand how it went like this in the government meeting! How can we discuss a normative act of such importance, the purpose of which is to reduce budget expenditures and establish contribution as a fundamental criterion taken into account when calculating the pension, without having essential data in front of us. The government must do its job and give us data,” USR senator Anca Dragu said, according to a press release.
For his part, USR senator Narcis Mircescu asked the government representative if he could name a single category of special pension that the current bill abolishes and if there is a special pension that is passed on the contributory principle, but both questions remained unanswered.
USR Senator Claudiu Mureșan argued that the draft law is clearly unconstitutional and will fail in any analysis by lawyers.
The debates in the Finance Budget Committee in the Senate were postponed for two weeks in order for the Government to come up with relevant information, which is missing from the statement of reasons accompanying the normative act.
