The opposition Save Romania Union (USR) will not bail out the 2019 draft budget, because that is "a fraud" based on "lie," USR MP Claudiu Nasui told plenary budget talks on Wednesday in Parliament.
"This budget, dear colleagues, is a fraud and it is a fraud because it is based on a lie. It is based on a lie that economic growth is 5.5pct. I want to remember this 5.5 percent because I'm sure we will talk about it next year as well. Last year we talked about 6.1pct; that was the percentage that you, the government, through the Economic Projection Board said we would have in 2018 and you built a budget on 6.1pct. What really happened last year? The same board that was promising us 6.1pct gradually downgraded the growth perspective to 5pct and then to 4.5pct; and finally, if we look at the INS [National Institute of Statistics] we see 4.2pct. So we have a too high, too unrealistic a growth forecast, as if politically bespoken to accommodate all the expenses that you want to make. In addition, you are telling us another lie that the leu-euro exchange rate will be 4.67 lei, even as now the central bank's rate is 4.74; the worst thing is that even you do not believe in those indicators," Nasui said.
According to him, under the draft budget expenses were increased.
He added that the current majority is in fact at a political war; its weapon is this year's budget and its targets, the mayors.
According to Nasui, there will be cuts in the appropriations for the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) and the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crimee and Terrorism (DIICOT), which deal with the fight against high-level crime and corruption, adding that the worst thing is the impact on the private environment and the private economy.
"I would like an economy that works for the Romanians (...) and the youth who have already left this country to return. Unfortunately, this budget is not that, so USR will not bail out this budget by its vote," concluded Nasui.
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