* Former asset owners compensated based on a number of points
* Marius Murgu: "There is a disaster looming, a tsunami of discontent among the former owners"
* The associations of asset owners are preparing an alternative to the draft law by the end of the week
PRIORITY
"BURSA", through its website www.bursa.ro, was the first newspaper to publish the draft of the law concerning the compensation of former owners prepared for today's government meeting.
The state will put its real estate resources it still owns into a Fund intended to compensate the former asset owners whose properties were abusively seized by the communist regime, in an attempt to meet the deadline set by the ECHR for the amendment of the law of restitutions - May 2013 -, according to a draft of the law obtained by our newspaper.
The project completely changes the compensation methodology, and former owners who have been waiting for their money for years will need to get accustomed to the new procedures and to arm themselves with patience. Again.
Some owners are bitterly joking that they have to wait before they can even start waiting some more for Kingdom Come.
The compensations will be granted mostly in kind, the draft law states, which the Government will read for the first time today.
On Monday, prime-minister Victor Ponta said that the Government will take responsibility in the Parliament for this law.
We don't know whether the draft presented in the government session will be the same, but the one we received is causing discontent among the former asset owners.
Marius Murgu, the president of the Banat Association of Owners of Nationalized Properties, thinks that if the new law gets passed in the form presented by the authorities, it will cause "a tsunami of discontent among the former owners".
* The first step
