Government To Postpone Passing 2019 Budget For Friday Meeting

Romania’s Government could delay adopting the state budget yet again, despite the fact that PM Viorica Dancila announced that the cabinet would make every effort to pass the project during Tuesday’s cabinet meeting, political sources told MEDIAFAX.

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According to the sources, the executive could schedule a second meeting this week on Friday to pass the act, which has been frequently delayed since early December.

This might happen despite the fact that Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici said on Saturday that the budget will be passed and sent to the Parliament on Tuesday afternoon or evening.

Dancila and Teodorovici presented the budget project at a Social Democrat Party (PSD) top-brass meeting on Sunday.

The project was criticized by municipality mayors for a new spending split, which sees local administrations take on some of the Government’s expenses, especially for social services.

Opposition parties also announced that they will challenge the act at the Constitutional Court if it is passed in its current form, decrying the use of overly-optimistic economic predictions to calculate the state’s income for the year.

The project might further be delayed as PSD Chairman Liviu Dragnea said that he intends to propose the transfer of an “important sum” from the budget allotted for secret services towards health spending. Should this change happen, the budget would require a new review from the Romania’s Supreme Defense Council.

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