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| Proposals for Romania’s administrative and territorial reorganisation 15/06/2011 |
| (2011-06-15) |
| Last updated: 2011-06-16 18:05 EET |
Romania’s territorial reorganisation has created divisions both between the power and the opposition, and among the ruling coalition. The government’s unity is thus on the verge of breaking up under the very eyes of president Traian Basescu, the initiator of what he calls “the reform of the Romanian state”.
Obsessively repeated by president Traian Basescu, the phrase “the reform of the Romanian state” has turned into a leitmotif for the Liberal Democratic Party, the senior partner in the ruling coalition, as well as a pretext for criticism by the opposition and a subject to derision by the media.
To achieve the reform of the Romanian state, the president and the Liberal Democratic Party recently reiterated the need for the introduction of a single-chamber parliament with a lower number of parliamentarians and for the administrative reorganisation of the country.
In the opinion of the Liberal Democratic Party, Romania should be divided into 8 big counties representing the 8 existing development regions, which would replace the current division into 41 counties and the capital city, which has been in place since 1968. Eager to impose its view inside the ruling coalition and later in parliament, the Liberal Democratic Party claims this new administrative and territorial organisation will facilitate the absorption of European development funds and the fight against corruption and reduce the over-sized local budgets.
However, the Liberal Democrats’ proposal did not find the expected support inside the ruling coalition, with the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania coming up with its own proposal of dividing the country into 16 administrative structures.
Talks on the issue triggered in fact a straightforward reaction from the ethnic Hungarians’ leader Kelemen Hunor: “Our starting point is our own proposal. We can discuss about this proposal with anyone who is interested, but we’re not willing to compromise and agree to the 8-county proposal. We’re saying no to the 8-county proposal of the Liberal Democratic Party, or at least not with our support.”
However, Prime Minister Emil Boc, the head of the Liberal Democratic Party, said the final version of the administrative and territorial bill and its implementation will be decided through talks inside the coalition. He said the version proposed by the Liberal Democrats may be put into practice without the need to modify the country’s constitution and hold a referendum. On the other hand, the opposition Social Democratic Union, which comprises the Social Democratic Party, the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, also has its own different proposal.
The co-leader of the Social Democratic Union, Crin Antonescu: “The discussion about Romania’s administrative and territorial reorganisation needs to be based on all Romanian and European Union rules and regulations in force. Implementing this reorganisation requires certain steps. It can by no means be, as the Romanian president wishes, the expression of the will of a single man. Nor can it be achieved overnight, despite the electoral interests of president Basescu and his party”.
Under these circumstances, it remains to be seen whether any changes will be made to Romania’s administrative and territorial map.
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