In this entire political struggle to designate a new Prime Minister and form a government, one thing is sure: irrespective of the government's color, its governing program comes from the IMF, one newspaper reads on Thursday. Elsewhere in the news, most newspapers read about the political declarations among parties: President Basescu refused a technocratic government proposed by Social Democrats and Liberals and suggests a national union government and possibly an independent PM, who speaks the language of the IMF. Yesterday, television channels were advancing the name of Lucian Croitoru as PM, who recently lost the deputy governor position in the Central Bank in favor of Liberal Bogdan Olteanu.
In all this political turmoil, one thing's for sure: the governing program remains dictated by the IMF, irrespective of the political color of the Prime Minister, Gandul reads. Economists say that there is only way to exit the crisis and that's the IMF agreement. The only thing the new government has to do is to abide its conditions as soon as possible.
Economists claim that to reach IMF targets, the Executive will have to stick to the beaten, announced paths. The new executive needs to recover the lost time because of the current political situation and respect the deadlines in the agreement, Chief Economist at BCR Lucian Anghel said.
Moreover, the new executive will have to adopt unpopular laws like the pensions law, which foresees a gradual increase of retirement age and its correlation with contributions. Those affected, primarily by this law are Parliamentarians themselves who risk to lose their luxury pensions.
The recent unique salary law, recently assumed by the Boc government poses some problems: opposition leaders declared that they do not agree with the law and that it should be modified. According to the IMF schedule,
