Save Romania Union (USR) MP Catalin Drula, vice-chairperson of the Chamber of Deputies, criticized on Wednesday the memorandum on the measures to restructure the legislative body, arguing that they are "a mockery", "a sham" of cost-cutting, in which most of the posts eliminated are vacant and belonging to those who are retiring.
Drula added that he was denied access to the Chamber of Deputies' payroll.
"There was a meeting of the standing Bureau where they discussed a material, I would even call it a rough sketch, a memorandum, supposedly, about a reorganization, a restructuring. In fact, it's a mockery, a sham of cost-cutting. For the most part, the posts that would eventually be eliminated are the vacant ones, where salaries are not paid anyway. In another part there are people who were retiring anyway in this period," said Drula, in Parliament.
He said that "a document is being kept hidden which is called the payroll of the Chamber of Deputies", which shows how many posts are stipulated for each department and how many are actually occupied, how many are in the category of parliamentary civil servants and how many are contractual.
"Provision [of the payroll, editor's note] was denied. I am vice-chairperson of the Chamber of Deputies on behalf of USR, and the services of the Chamber of Deputies, the general secretariat refused to make this document available to me or to my colleagues from the Standing Bureau of all the other parties. It is clear that there is extra staff, there are extra connections that nobody touches.(...)," said Catalin Drula.
He also argued that "this restructuring is a mimicry of a form of efficiency".
"The parliamentary connections in the area of public parliamentary posts (...) have remained here. There is a holy oath between the PNL and PSD. You cannot touch them. We are protesting against this way of working, it is a sham, there is no reform, no spending is being reduced. It is the way PSD and PNL work in all areas of administration, because these parties, in fact, are two big enterprises employing hardly employable people on the free market in the public sector," said Catalin Drula.
The Standing Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies approved, on Wednesday, a memorandum on "reorganization and efficiency measures for the services" of the institution, according to which 240 posts will be cut. AGERPRES
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