They will continue to work under the supervision of Finance Minister and deputy Prime Minister Florin Georgescu, who replaced Bogdan Dragoi after two months in office.
The Finance Ministry’s organizational chart has three positions of, but, according to the quoted sources, one variant being considered is a return to the organizational chart with four state secretaries, so that two candidates to high positions within the ministry can fill those seats: Liviu Voinea, manager of the Group for Applied Economics, who is close to PSD and a consultant of the social democrats on economics, and Claudiu Doltu, former state secretary in the Finance Ministry in the Tariceanu Government and then representative of Romania to the World Bank, endorsed by PNL.
Both younger-generation economists aspired to the job of finance minister, but didn’t find the necessary endorsement, with the professional authority of veteran Florin Georgescu being preferred. Georgescu suspended his term as first deputy governor of central bank to take the job of finance minister.
(English version by Daniela Stoican)