Bucharest’s Dalli Says It Contributed EUR1.5M To City’s Budget In ‘07

The firm added the termination of the contract between Dalli and the Bucharest mayoralty is nothing but a voter-friendly measure.

“Every time we come close to an election campaign, Dalli is made into a scapegoat and becomes politically inconvenient,” the company said in a statement.

In 1995, Dalli won an auction for the management of parking spaces in central Bucharest, and agreed to pay the mayoralty 55.5% of its earnings.

The mayor who signed the contract then was liberal. Later on, the contract was extended by mayors belonging to different political parties, which proves how apolitical the parking company is, the firm said.

Unless one proves that Dalli belongs to a certain political group, then the firm might become “interesting” in a campaign aiming to cover up the mayoralty’s other big interests, the firm added.

Dalli claims that it has never received any money from the mayoralty and that it contributed EUR8 million to the local.

In 2007, Dalli gave the city hall 55.5% of its earnings, which amount to EUR1.5 million, value added tax of EUR192,000, salaries and taxes for its 200 employees of EUR675,000, maintenance expenses of EUR136,00 and taxes per profit and dividends of EUR50,000, with an annual net profit of EUR147,000, thus EUR12,250 per month (equal to 5.5% of total earnings).

The contract between Dalli and the Bucharest mayoralty is still valid until a court ruling. The firm also expects a written statement explaining the mayor’s reasons that led to the sudden termination of the contract.

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general mayor, Sorin Oprescu, announced Friday that he terminated the mayoralty’s contract with Dalli for the management of parking spaces in central Bucharest.