Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan declared on Friday that public-sector salaries and pensions have been capped, and any increases will only be possible if, by the end of next year, the budget deficit reaches 6% of GDP, according AGERPRES.
"According to the decisions we have made and which are some of the elements on which the trajectory I told you is based, by the end of 2026, public-sector salaries and pensions have been capped. But, given that, at the end of 2026, Romania will approach a deficit of close to 6%, so we are decreasing by over two percentage points, then there will certainly be conditions for public-sector salaries and pensions to be increased, probably based on a calculation that takes into account the inflation rate, which takes into account the capacity to bear these increases in a sustainable way," Bolojan said on Prima TV, when asked if he personally proposes to increase pensions up to the government's rotation.
The prime minister stressed that such increases must be sustainable, otherwise imbalances are created for "some measures that apparently sound good, but which sooner or later are revalidated by the real economy".
"What is happening in this period, through all the measures that we have been forced to take, we show that our economy cannot support the things that we have decided and in one form or another, through government corrections, these are relatively controlled or uncontrolled corrections through some inflations, which are no longer kept under control or through an inability to pay, the real economy corrects your slippages. That we cannot have more money, for example, in the state budget than the money that we take in the form of taxes and duties from the people who work in Romania", added Bolojan.
He also said that if Romania wants to have more money for social assistance, investments, health or education, it needs either more people active in the economy or more taxes on those who work.
"But we can't have more and the solution is not to take higher taxes, but to collect the ones we have established and, through the measures we take, to bring more people into the economy," Bolojan added.
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