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By weighing in on the 2019 budget and the statements on it, President Klaus Iohannis is playing "an electoral game at the expense of the Romanians" and "misinforms them," Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said at the beginning of a government meeting on Tuesday.
"I had the feeling that we returned in time, to 2013, when another president would promulgate only the social security budget, with the same lies. The Romanian president misinforms the Romanians, inventing ridiculous explanations of why he made the decision to block the adoption of the 2019 budget. It is obviously an electoral game but that he is playing at the expense of the Romanians," Dancila said.
She called "irresponsible" the statements of the president, adding that Iohannis generates worries that there is no pension money, although that does not have "any real basis".
"Mr President Iohannis proves that he does not know elementary things when he says 1.4 billion lei are missing from the pension budget. In fact, after many years in 2019, the budget will have a surplus of 1.7 billion lei , as a result of the transfer of contributions from the employer to the employees - another measure that President Iohannis criticised, a measure that has shown its effectiveness. Another misinformation that the president has nonchalantly aired relates to pension increases. Mr President should read the measures the Romanian government has passed to increase pensions ahead of schedule(...) I consider totally irresponsible the statements made by the president, who is playing with the feelings of the people while getting pensioners worried that there is no pension money, a claim that has no real basis. (...) Pensioners have no reason to worry. Just as we have pledged, we continue increasing pensions," Dancila said.
