About 1,000 Public Servants, Local Mayors Protest In E Romania Over Budget Cuts

About one thousand public servants and local mayors in the eastern Romanian county of Vrancea protested Wednesday at the prefect’s office in county seat Focsani, demanding the annulment of a government decree that took over 34 million lei (EUR1=RON4.2478) off the county’s budget.

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The protest, called by the local branch of the Association of Communes in Romania, is attended by public servants of the county's 73 administrative units and most town, commune and village mayors, who are mostly members of the opposition Social Democratic and Liberal parties.

Protesters called on the Government to reign and demanded that they speak to the county prefect, who refused to come out among protesters and said he would talk to a few of their delegates.

The Government in August revised the state budget and lowered budgets of several local public authorities.

Liberal Valerică Zamfirescu, vice-president of the association that called the protest, said 30 mayoralties in the county are currently facing financial collapse because of the budget revision and in some cases, public servants have not received their wages over the past three months.

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