Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu does not want the population to find out how much money President Klaus Iohannis spends on foreign trips, Save Romania Union (USR) spokesman Ionut Mosteanu, declared on Friday.
He said that the draft law proposed by the USR to ensure transparency regarding the spending of public money for the foreign trips of officials received a negative opinion from the Government.
"I don't understand why Prime Minister Ciolacu refuses to let the Romanians find out how much money is spent by elected officials on foreign trips. The citizens have the right to know the costs of Klaus Iohannis's trips, whether we are talking about the meeting with the deputy mayor of Rio de Janeiro or the trip to Japan with an aircraft of oligarchs. With a stopover in Sibiu. Transparency should be a norm in a healthy democracy, not an exception," said the deputy, according to a USR press release.
Mosteanu, initiator of the project, appeals to all Social Democratic Party (PSD) members of Parliament to vote for the normative act, which eliminates the classification, as job secrets, of information related to spending public money on foreign travels, with the exception of expenses related to national security.
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