Pambuccian said the Hungarian minority party UDMR proposed that pensions be raised in April instead of the second half of the year, if the country’s economy will allow for it.
The International Monetary Fund agrees with salary and pension raises in the second half of 2012, budget resources allowing, but this does not guarantee such a decision would be made by Romania’s Government.
President Traian Basescu reaffirmed Thursday, after a meeting with the official delegation of the IMF, EU and World Bank, that pensions and public sector wages would certainly not be reduced next year.