Over 100 pensioners affiliated with the Unirea National Pensioners Federation of Romania at 10:00 am started a protest in front of the Government House in Bucharest, in central Victoria Square, with their main grievance being a drop in their living standards.
Chairman of the Unirea National Pensioners Federation of Romania Dumitru Cojanu told agerpres. that he called on both president Klaus Iohannis and Premier Dacian Ciolos to tell the pensioners what pensions they are going to draw in 2017 and in years to come. Cojanu has also specified that he expects to be received, along other representatives of the pensioners, inside the Government House to discuss their grievances.
According to the federation, the reason for their 15 November public rally is deepening poverty and a drop in the living standards over the past years due to diminished purchasing power.
The pensioners say that the real pension is smaller than in the crisis year 2009, due to the pensions having been frozen in 2010 - 2011 and the 2.8pct average increases in 2012 - 2016. They demand pensions being computed against 45pct of the average gross wage, the taxation only of the part of the pensions that exceeds the average gross wage, an increase in the number of subsidised and free medicines, an increase in subsidies for medical prosthesis and also an increase in the number of treatment vouchers, to 400,000, from 220,000.
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