The mayors who make electoral promises and not keep them afterwards will be punished by law. Elsewhere in the news, Romania’s president snapped at the general prosecutor, while accusing the lack of solutions in the 1989 Revolution dossier. Last but not least, important Romanian swimmer is to redraw because the Sport bodies would not pay for her training.

The mayors who make electoral promises and not keep them afterwards will be punished by law, Evenimentul Zilei reads. They could lose the state's support. The new government decision is meant to decide on the criteria underlining local budgets. According to the normative act, should the mayors persist in lying, there will be further sanctions.

The consequences that electoral lies attract are still to be discussed, but a member of the Interior Ministry believes that it could result in the annual state budget being cut for the locality run by a deceitful mayor. The local council could be stuck with posters informing citizens on the gas supply networks from the region, school facilities, temperature and toilets, running water and infrastructure they could expect.

Schools are to see their budgets cut if students get sick or don't promote. An extreme measure will award money to hospitals according to the number of patients that get better. But the local leaders cannot agree with these last measures and disagree that the quality standards in the health department can be set according to the number of patients that get better. Some local leaders, though, welcome the idea of promising only what can be achieved.

Basescu snapped at Romania's general prosecutor Laura Codruta Kevesi when she tried to justify several inconvenience related to the incapacity to give a verdict in the case of the Romanian Revolution from December 1989, Cotidianul reads. "Do not mistake me for a journali