President Klaus Iohannis request the gov't authorities to bring under control the situation generated by the swift spread of the African swine fever and draws attention to the budget situation invoked by the Executive.
The head of state maintains that the Gov't has not spent anything from the Reserve Fund for the African swine fever.
President Iohannis considers that "the defective and reckless way" the Reserve Fund was handled has led to the present situation, where, in a crisis situation, the Gov't no longer has at its disposal money in this fund, although he shows that the Executive's Reserve Fund receives constant supplies, not just through budget amendments.
"It is outrageous that members of the Gov't credit fake topics, which condition the budget amendment by a series of essential payments, such as the payment of pensions or medicine acquisition. This approach does not represent anything else but a cynical exercise to manipulate the public opinion, that PSD [Social Democratic Party, major at rule, e.n.] has turned into a real governing way. The blame for the critical budget situation where the Gov't is at present lies completely with the ministers who were not capable at the beginning of the year to make correct estimates regarding the funds necessary to the ministries they coordinate," the quoted source mentions.
The Presidential administration underscores that the head of state has repeatedly drawn alarm signals in relation to the precarious sustainability of 2018's budget, the sub-financing of certain expenditure chapters being obvious.
President Iohannis affirms that "from the desire to check the respective assumed targets with regard to deficit, the budget project underestimated certain spending categories, due to subsequently receive the necessary financial resources."
"A serious budget amendment does not mean mending and resorting to last-minute actions," President Iohannis concludes.