How much money the state saves with redundancies in local authorities
The local authorities have started to work on the new
organisational charts in order to meet the norms set by an
emergency ordinance, which modifies the law of public finance, and
which was published in the Official Gazette last week.
According to calculations of the Ministry of Administration and
Interior, the savings achieved by making over 53,000 redundant will
amount to 1.5 billion RON by the end of the year.
The Government modified the law of local public finance, forcing
local authorities to cut personnel, which upset certain mayors. The
response of Arad's mayor Gheorghe Falca, prepared since before the
ordinance was passed, is revealing: Vladescu (Romanian Finance
Minister i.e.) doesn't decide what I do in Arad! Sorin Oprescu,
mayor of Bucharest, says in turn: I cannot cut personnel, while the
mayor of Timisoara, Gheorghe Ciuhandu, says all local authorities
are given the same treatment, disregarding the fact that a city
like Timisoara, for instance, with 400,000 inhabitants, has got
theatres and cultural establishments that other cities do not,
which means it needs more personnel.