USR rejected the rectification of the Capital’s budget proposed by Bucharest City Hall mayor Nicusor Dan, after he reduced the thermal ultility investments to 42 million lei, compared to 81 million proposed at the beginning of the year and 52 million at the previous rectification approved by the General Council.

Thus, the budget rectification proposed by the mayor general, Nicusor Dan, which cuts almost 470 million lei from the municipality’s budget and moves money between various institutions and projects, was rejected by the General Council because it did not benefit from USR support, according to Hotnews.ro.

“USR does not support the negative budget rectification requested by Mayor General Nicusor Dan in the last days of 2021.

The negative rectification announced by Nicușor Dan is meant to reduce the Capital’s budget in such a way as to give the impression that the mayor general has reached the targets he announced in the first half of this year. The total amount he wants to cut is of 324 million lei.

Basically, the mayor Nicușor Dan wants to reduce, 3 days before the end of the year, the budget for the investments he did not make. For example, in 2021, investments in the district heating network were in the initial budget 81 million lei. During the year, the mayor Nicușor Dan kept lowering them and they reached 52 million lei.

Now the mayor wants to reduce them once again to 42 million. This is because in reality only 42 million lei worth investments were made, half of the initial pledge. USR Bucharest councilors warned from the beginning of the year, when the initial budget was voted, that the revenues of the Capital City Hall are overestimated, and Nicușor Dan continues a bankrupt practice of Gabriela Firea, whom he criticized before becoming mayor. This practice allows the mayor to spend the money of the people of Bucharest strictly according to his own interest. Now we see that what the USR councilors were saying has come true and the mayor wants to reduce the budgeted expenditures to the ones made in order to give the impression of a better execution,” USR announced before the General Council meeting.

For the 2022 budget, USR asks Mayor Nicușor Dan to come up with a serious and concrete plan.

“USR advisers will not support budget proposals for 2022 made ad hoc, without prior consultations”, USR Bucharest also announced on its Facebook page.

Mayor Nicușor Dan says that the most urgent issue is the non-payment of the advance for the 100 trams ordered by the City Hall at Astra Vagoane Arad, which would jeopardize the contract, although the Ministry of Development already transferred the money to the City Hall.