2010 draft budget: no holiday or food tickets for budgetary personnel / no salary increases

Budgetary personnel will not receive food or holiday tickets and salaries will not exceed their 2008 levels. Moreover, the draft budget reveals that there will be no benefits: the government will cut almost half of the funds allocated for city halls for infrastructure development and sports facilities in rural areas. Next year, a little over 533 million lei will be allocated after last year the budget financed with 914 million lei for the same objectives.

According to the document, the 2010 budget will be composed on total revenues of 166.709 billion lei – 31.75% of GDP and spending of 197.904 billion lei (37.68% of GDP with a budgetary deficit of 5.9%. According to the author of the document, Gheorghe Gherghina, the budget is constructed on an estimated GDP which is 1.3% higher than last year’s GDP.