Dobrovolschi said the 2019 budget bill was sent to the president for the sign-off on Wednesday. The government was already three months late in drafting and adopting the bill.
“The president of Romania once again wishes to point out that the 2019 budget doesn’t target the development and progress but the well-being of the ruling party. The 2019 budget, made out of PSD’s imagination and based on overly optimistic projections is once again proof of the lack of responsibility and the defective manner through which the social democrats decided to govern Romania,” she said.
The spokeswoman also pointed out that the budget cuts local investments from state funds compared with 2018 and disregards the current economic context.
She added the president will decide in the coming days whether to sign off on the bill.
Romania’s Parliament passed the 2019 state budget last week, two months into the year. The president can choose to sign off on the bill and it becomes law, could send it back to Parliament for reexamination or could challenge it at the Constitutional Court.