Editorial Press Review November 2

In the newspaper “Gândul”, Victor Rotariu writes about the following: “The Government that nobody trusted in when they wanted to do something good”.

“A few days before IMF coming at Bucharest, Boc’s government boasted and promised that they will fight with the Fund in order to get, for the sake of all Romanians, (how else?) a lower flat of 12%, a 3% lower Health Insurance Company tax and an increase in the minimum wage.

The Fund did not accepted the proposals of Boc’s government not because these could be bad but because it doesn’t trust that Boc’ team can be able to fill the inherent budget gaps created by these measure, according to the final columnist’ claim that I quote: “Boc’s government has to do the best and now, in the last minute, has to start a campaign for making people trust the Government, as institution, again, not for wining polls at the following elections but to make reforms easy to endure and to apply.”

In the “Evenimentul Zilei” Sorin Ioniţă analyses a system that concerns all of us and with which we will have to deal without us ever wishing to do it: the sanitary system, which during summer will be abruptly decentralized, being taken over mostly by the local authorities.

I quote from the editorial: “Decentralization was not prepared at all and as a consequence, the local authorities will have to fix the defaults of an inherited system: yet with too many buildings and beds, too few doctors and too much auxiliary staff, a system that does not allow coordinating the health network in an area because some hospitals belong to the county, others to the Halls so there appear duplications and there lacks specialization within a radius of 20-30 km( 12-18 miles).

During all this time, special sections and particularly the units of emergency in the county, which should be put at the end of a long chain of professional sorting, are directly assaulted by the people from the street.

One could be tempted to say that the decentralization process must have been better prepared, discussed more democratic, inside the Parliament. On the contrary, noticing haw do these discussions look like recently and what little added value they bring up, maybe the only solution to change something is to go headfirst, a solution adopted by the minister Cseke”, as concludes Sorin Ioniţă.

According to Miruna Munteanu too, who wrote in the Jurnalul Naţional, I quote about the present situation of the Romanian Parliament: “The fundamental Institution of democracy became only a stage of a ludicrous vaudeville, clumsily invented according to the instructions given by Cotroceni”.

“The legitimacy of the legislative body was dispelled when the majority of polls of the electorate were replaced by another one, bought man by man. Being taught to foolishly comply, any trace of vigilance of the parliamentary of majority declined.

“It is enough to raise your hand at the group leader’s signal! Carefully implemented, the abdication of consciousness created an impressive premiere: two extremely important laws have been “mistakenly” adopted.

It doesn’t matter, the president will resolve it! Summing up, the “state reform” promised by Traian Basescu at the elections seems a mere project. Taking into account the place that he gives to the Parliament, even for a unicameral member this would be a useless “waste”, as Miruna Munteanu ends.


Translated by: Maricescu Cristina Anamaria
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University