The reforms that the Citu Cabinet is making are necessary and in accordance with the governing program, the chairman of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Ludovic Orban, said on Tuesday, after the PNL's leadership meeting.
He specified that the governing program states the same ratio in the GDP of spending for public staff wages.
"This does not mean freezing salaries. This means that, if you maintain the same envelope, the same percentage of the GDP for any economic growth, the salaries in the public sector will grow accordingly with the economic growth," the PNL leader said.
Orban rejected the information regarding an increase of retirement age.
"It is not true that we want to increase the retirement age. There is a draft which allows those able to work even after retiring, to not go through the humiliating process, year after year, to ask the company's manager to allow them to work after retirement, but assign that right to able-bodied people who want to keep working even after the retirement age, but we will not increase the mandatory retirement age", he said.
According to him, recalculating pensions is part of this system's reform.
"There must be a predictable mechanism which will take into account the objective economic indicators which are at the basis of increasing of the pension point, and recalculating pensions is part of the reform, because the objective of recalculating pensions is to eliminate the inequities within the system", Ludovic Orban said.