Save Romania Union (USR - opposition) MEP Iulian Bulai, a leader of the ALDE group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, said on Thursday that he had notified the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODHIR) of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe about the poor organisation of the June 9 elections and the suspicions of fraud at several polling stations."The rule of law and solid democracy mean clear procedures and impeccably conducted electoral processes, not experiments, not improvisations. The so-called organisation of these elections could not have gone well in the absence of digitalisation and adequate logistics. Tens of thousands of representatives and observers at the polling stations had to make an effort beyond their strength. It was a process that exceeded human capacity. and we now see the hundreds of challenges on obvious evidence of fraud, which are not taken into account, by an apparatus that works anti-democratic," Bulai added in a press statement.USR is said to have repeatedly requested the admission of the recount of votes at the precincts with serious suspicions of fraud and erroneous writings in the minutes. USR also says that in the few polling stations in the country where the recount was accepted, the result confirmed the accusations that the Social Democratic Party and the National Liberal Party (PNL) would have rigged the elections.
President Nicusor Dan signed on Thursday the decree appointing Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan as interim Vice Prime Minister on the areas coordinated by Dragos Anastasiu, the Presidential Administration informed.On 27 July, Dragos Anastasiu announced he was stepping down from the vice prime minister office, mentioning that he could no longer accept "being denigrated and thus […]
Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan continued consultations on Thursday with representatives of the Association of Communes of Romania, telling them there is a strong chance to overcome the current difficult period if the approach of "responsibility toward public funds" is maintained."The reform of local public administration will be part of the second package of government measures […]
Financing the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) projects will continue for those already initiated and will stop only in case investment has not begun, where not a single euro was spent for construction, Development minister Cseke Attila explained on Thursday. “PNRR will not stop, neither will financing investments which have already been initiated, […]
The Justice Ministry announced on Thursday having developed in cooperation with the Finance Ministry and the National Tax Administration Agency a set of proposals to amend the Insolvency Law, which will be included in the second reform package.Some of the amendments provide for a higher recovery rate of the taxes and fees owed by insolvent […]
Romania is in the antechamber of recession, with the risk that its economy will decline in the third or fourth quarter, especially amid an increase in taxes, a significant drop in sales and record inflation at European level, says business consultant Adrian Negrescu."We are currently in the antechamber of recession. It is a moment […]
The Ministry of Culture announced on Thursday that is set to adapt national legislation for enforcing the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), which supports media pluralism, editorial responsibility, protects journalists from abusive surveillance and intimidation, and provides protection for sources.According to a Culture Ministry release, the implementation in Romania of Regulation (EU) 2024/1083 of the […]
