Social Democrats File Draft Laws To Complement Crisis Containment Programme

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The Social Democrat Party (PSD) will initiate a set of laws to complement Romania"s crisis containment programme. The package will contain four or five basic laws, which the PSD want adopted by the end of the year, Spokesman Bogdan Niculescu Duvaz said yesterday.

"The legal package prepared by PSD to complement the crisis containment programme will be presented to Parliament by next week. These are laws to stimulate economic recovery and stop the loss of jobs while creating opportunities for new jobs. The package contains four or five basic laws of substantial effect on the economy and must be presented to Parliament, debated and adopted as soon as possible, before the end of the session, in order to become effective as of next year," Bogdan Niculescu Duvaz told NewsIn. He added that one of the laws referred to the establishment of the National Housing Fund.

• Ministers authorized to complement reform laws

PSD Spokesman Niculescu Duvaz further said that the PSD National Political Bureau (BPN) had authorized the relevant ministers to have talks with the parliamentary groups and the social stakeholders in order to complement the laws which the Government was planning to pass via a no-confidence vote on 15 September.

"The laws are discussed and presented to the parliamentary groups and the special committees. The National Political Bureau has asked the relevant ministers to continue to discuss and improve the draft laws together with the social stakeholders and all the political groups in Parliament so that we may ensure comprehensive support for the legal packages," Duvaz explained after the meeting of the PSD National Political Bureau.

Education Minister Ecaterina Andronescu yesterday said PSD had already prepared amendments to the package of laws concerning the Education system and announced that she would have consultations with the parliamentary groups this week.

Labour Minister Marian Sarbu is also planning to have talks with the MPs about the Single Salary Policy Law.