Dragnea and Prime Minister Mihai Tudose on Thursday morning met with employees of CE Hunedoara and the Mintia power plant, which is part of the holding, to discuss the company’s economic situation.
State-owned CE Hunedoara has debts of over RON2 billion. It currently employs around 5,500 people and will lay off almost 1,100 workers in December.
The coal-burning energy producer covers around 5% of Romania’s electricity production and played a key role when the country experienced freezing temperatures in January.