Interim Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said that the National Liberal Party (PNL) sees feasible to form a transitional government based on technocrats whose main task would be to adopt the public policies needed to prepare for next year.
He was responding to a question about whether the PNL had softened its position on voting for the next government and would be prepared to support a government that could also include, for example, the Social Democratic Party (PSD).
"No. Personally, both I and the party I represent remain consistent with what we said, both in the spring and in the summer. If you remember, before this no-confidence motion, we warned the PSD that such a motion would trigger a crisis and that, if it no longer honoured any agreements, we would no longer be part of a government with the PSD. That position has remained unchanged. Following the attempts that were made to form governments, you may remember what happened with the proposed Tomac government, which was never put to a vote. We then had the attempt to form the Vestea government, which was based on a betrayal from within the PNL. When that also failed, the solution we proposed at the beginning of the summer, and which I consider feasible, was to form a transitional government, as I called it, a government of truce. I see a technocratic government in this formula, with a prime minister, but mainly one based on technocrats, because otherwise, what happens? You have a government with just a few technocratic proxies who have no knowledge of the relevant field and are not qualified people. In effect, that means a formula in which some people are pulling the strings from behind while others are out front and can take responsibility," Ilie Bolojan said on Thursday evening on B1 TV private television broadcaster.
He stressed that such a government would represent a common-sense solution, outside political calculations.
"But such a formula, made up of competent people, and we have such people in every sector in Romania, could be a genuine transitional arrangement whose important mission would be to do what we discussed earlier: take the necessary measures to prepare for next year, complete the PNRR (...), carry out the budget revision to ensure normal functioning, prepare next year's budget and get us through this winter. In this way, it would be a common-sense solution. I have proposed it before, but unfortunately there was not enough critical mass to support it. We are willing to discuss this, as I have said, so that we can find a solution for Romania, because today this is no longer about political calculations. Time is passing and it is not passing in favour of one political figure or another, but to Romania's detriment, and that is not a good thing," Bolojan said.
