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National chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Marcel Ciolacu said on Monday that at a meeting of the party leadership he would recommend the start of negotiations with the National Liberal Party (PNL) over the formation of a government and added that he knows no other negotiations than those according to parliamentary proportion.
Asked at the PSD headquarters what mandate he will entrust his colleagues in the National Political Council with, Ciolacu said: "Let's start negotiations. Negotiations can only be according to parliamentary proportion. I have not heard of negotiations other than those according to proportions, (...) to the results of the general election, not opinion polls."
Asked if there is money for increases in pensions and allowances that PSD intends to include in its governing agenda, Ciolacu said: "We have the budget implementation. I have seen the news myself and I thought I made myself clearly understood: increases are made against an approved budget. One of the priorities with PSD is these increases, and we will see how much is possible according to the budget, so that we do not fool the Romanians. Secondly, this year, these months, November and December, we will see them after we have the October budget implementation. For the time being, we only have the budget implementation in the ninth month."
The PSD leader also said that Romania has reached a public debt, "incurred by the right-wing governments, PNL-USR [Save Romania Union]," of almost 50% and, under to the law, no increase is allowed for the time being.
Ciolacu said he had not spoken with President Klaus Iohannis.
