{"id":709161,"date":"2026-08-20T11:07:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microscopemedia.com\/?p=709161"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:07:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:07:02","slug":"siegfried-muresan-the-psd-must-not-return-to-power-what-the-new-government-should-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microscopemedia.com\/?p=709161","title":{"rendered":"Siegfried Mure\u0219an: \u201cThe PSD must not return to power.\u201d What the new government should do"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"43.249311294766\">\n<div class=\"sgb-google-buttons\">\n<div class=\"display-flex justify-center google-logo\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mg-x-auto\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" src=\"https:\/\/microscopemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/siegfried-muresan-the-psd-must-not-return-to-power-what-the-new-government-should-do.png\" alt><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p id=\"p-0\">\u201cEverything that has happened in recent weeks confirms one thing: the PSD must not return to power,\u201d Mure\u0219an said on Facebook on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-1\">The MEP asserts that the Bolojan government, with the support of Romanians, managed to reduce the budget deficit by 28 billion lei in the first six months of the year, compared to the same period in 2025, which he associates with the \u201cwastefulness\u201d of the Ciolacu government.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-2\">\u201c28 billion lei is equivalent to approximately 230 kilometers of highway, 1,800 modern daycare centers, or eight regional hospitals,\u201d Mure\u0219an asserts.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-3\">According to him, continuing \u201cresponsible, waste-free\u201d governance is necessary for Romania\u2019s sustainable development and for maintaining an investment budget, given that, starting next year, Romania will no longer receive funds from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-4\">Mure\u0219an also criticizes the PSD\u2019s stance on the measures \u201cthat have put us in a better situation than we were in a year ago.\u201d The MEP points out that the PSD \u201cinitiated and voted for the motion of no confidence against the Bolojan government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-5\">\u201cAs such, the PSD has zero credibility when it says it will continue the reforms and not return to wasteful spending,\u201d the MEP states.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-6\">Siegfried Mure\u0219an says that Romania needs a \u201ccredible\u201d government that will continue the measures adopted by Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-7\">Mure\u0219an says that \u201cwe need a government\u201d that \u201cwill continue to reduce waste and reform the state\u201d and \u201cwill continue to attract non-repayable European funds for cohesion, an area in which the Bolojan government has achieved record results over the past year.\u201d Mure\u0219an also argues that the new government\u2019s reforms should ensure that \u201cthe reforms in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) are irreversible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEverything that has happened in recent weeks confirms one thing: the PSD must not return to power,\u201d Mure\u0219an said on Facebook on Thursday. The MEP asserts that the Bolojan government, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/microscopemedia.com\/?p=709161\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microscopemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microscopemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microscopemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microscopemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microscopemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microscopemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microscopemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/709162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microscopemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microscopemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microscopemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}