Claudiu Năsui, USR: "ASF must be abolished and another regulatory authority created"

Deputy Claudiu Năsui, member of the Budget, Finances, Banks Committee, claims that the future management of the ASF - at least as it shows through the support expressed before the PSD and PNL hearings for certain candidates - will not change anything in the way the activity is carried out in the respective public institution.

Claudiu Năsui declared for the BURSA newspaper: "I expect that the future management of ASF will continue to take 16 annual salaries, of 12,000 euros per month, and do nothing. If there is a scandal, I expect them to do long enough until a new scandal appears, on principle time passes, the leaf goes on. I expect that the future leadership of ASF will continue the same way of working as the team that has been at the head of the Authority until now. I see absolutely no reason why the way it works would change for the better. And it's not that there is no one from USR there. And if they put someone from USR, and if they put anyone else besides PSD and PNL members, a man without a majority in the Board of Directors could not have changed anything. What should be done at ASF? A big reset of the organization. ASF must simply be abolished and a new regulatory authority created in its place. At the moment there are far too many unnecessary and strictly parasitic structures".

Asked if under these conditions we can expect new bankruptcies in the insurance market, Mr. Năsui told us: "I wouldn't say that we could expect new bankruptcies in the insurance market, that I don't know exactly, but we can expect the same kind of poor regulation, little or no oversight as we've had before. I do not know the solidity of the existing companies in the insurance market. I think that if ASF doesn't do its job well - because you can't tell from public data which company calculates things well and which company doesn't - there will be problems. The insurance business is a business of reserves on the one hand to deal with risks. You, from the outside, have no way of knowing what the risk structure is".

We wanted to know how his lordship evaluates the activity of the former ASF management team, and Claudiu Năsui told us: "It depends on what you mean by performance. If the monthly salaries they give themselves have increased from 14 to 16, then from the point of view of parasitising public money, the Marcu team deserves a score of 10. From the point of view of efficiency, of doing something good for Romania, score 1. If the new management team has every bit of common sense, they will review the collective labor agreement within the ASF, return to 12 monthly salaries, as is natural and normal, and put their salaries at least according to performance with some criteria that citizens to buy them. ASF is currently one of the best paid institutions in the Romanian state and one of the most incompetent at the same time. It is effectively the personification of hypocrisy".

Deputy Mr. Năsui also told us that USR will not support any candidate for ASF from those who will appear before the assembled parliamentary committees of budget, finance, banks.