Romanian Democrat Liberal VP Crashes PM In Public Sector Wage Scandal

Preda said his party “cannot make any deal with Tariceanu, because he is no prime minister.”

“I told him (Premier Calin Popescu Tariceanu – e.n.) that his wish for work groups with the parties is crap, because all Romanian parties want a law on sole salary levels. PDL wants this law, wants to enact it and it will do so immediately after the elections. He (Tariceanu – e.n.) is incapable of making this law, even with ten work groups (…),” Preda said.

Preda stressed that talks between the government and parties only target to consolidate Tariceanu’s public image, adding PDL wants the law regulating public sector wages to be adopted.

Preda also said that Tariceanu supposedly told officials of political parties that he cannot carry through the 50% increase in teachers’ wages, as stipulated in the law recently adopted by the Parliament.

Tariceanu met with officials of political parties to discuss wages in the public sector, after the Constitutional Court ruled the 50% pay hike for teachers was constitutional, and urged for the establishment of a work group to draw up a series of minimum requirements regarding the bill on wages in the public sector.

Tariceanu and politicians discussed the principles to be followed to amend salary system in the public sector.

Romania’s Constitutional Court decided Wednesday that the law by which employees in the education system will receive 50% higher salaries is constitutional.