The Romanian opposition Liberal Party (PNL) will request President Traian Basescu not to promulgate the ordinance on the deconcentrated public agencies which triggers thousands of dismissals countrywide, first vice president Ludovic Orban said.
The
Cabinet recently passed an emergency ordinance on the public
deconcentrated services meant to change the top directors of such
agencies countrywide with people able to implement the central policies.
The
law, passed by the two ruling parties, the Democrat Liberal (PD-L) one
and the Social Democrat Party (PSD) was stiffly opposed by the former
governing Liberals and by the Hungarian Democratic Alliance (UDMR),
representing the largest minority in Romania.
The
president said yesterday at UDMR’s congress that maybe “ruling parties
will reflect some more on the ordinance.” Yet, Orban wonders if the
president’s words are really sincere. Basescu, a former head of PD-L
until elected president in 2004, was many times accused of ruling the
party from the shadow.
Orban
labeled the ordinance as an “assault on democracy,” pointing the
Liberals are set to bring the issue to the attention of European
institutions.
Some
of the people heading local deconcentrated public agencies, who should
be dismissed through emergency ordinance, can remain in the seats if
they are reconfirmed as professionals, executive secretary PD-L Mircea
Toader told NewsIn two days ago.
Toader
explained the Cabinet’s ordinance through the need to have directors in
the local administration agencies able to implement central policies.
Bloc
changing of directors of deconcentrated public agencies in the country
halts an endless row of continuous changes, Toader said. “They will be
replaced with people working on a management contract basis and aware
of the risk to be replaced once the ruling party changes,” he added.
However,
not all those the ordinance refers to will lose their posts. “I can
give you the example of the county I come from, Galati, where 50
percent of such directors will be reconfirmed to their seats as they
are professionals,” Toader pointed. As for the number of the people to
suffer from this ordinance, he estimated some 30 people in each county
which means 1,200 in total.
