Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan on Tuesday said that he plans that the 2026 state budget be finalised next week and sent to Parliament for adoption, mentioning that he is assuming responsibility for it to be a realistic budget.
"A very important element these days is finalising the budget so that, within the shortest possible timeframe, it can be closed. We intend to close the budget next week and send it to Parliament for adoption and, regardless of the packages that are proposed, regardless of those that are adopted, a basic element is to avoid what happened in previous years, namely not to draft budgets that are not based on real data. The responsibility I am assuming, together with the Finance Minister and my colleagues in the Government, is to draw up a realistic budget, a budget in which all proposals coming from one package or another, from one measure or another, have real backing. If expenditure is proposed, it must be covered by revenue. If certain measures are proposed, revenues must be correctly assessed, so that we know what expenditure we can afford," Ilie Bolojan told a press conference at Victoria Governmental Palace at the end of the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday evening.
The Prime Minister said that all measures will be analysed and that those with budgetary coverage will be supported, when asked about the social solidarity measures proposed by the Social Democratic Party.
"All measures proposed by ministries or by political parties, for example increasing the budgets for investment projects under national programmes, where there is significant pressure from authorities that have signed contracts to ensure financing, but again we have certain limitations, projects related to support for people in a difficult situation, such as pensioners with low incomes, all these measures, all aspects related to one project or another are currently being analysed and, where we identify the budgetary resources to cover them, we will support all projects that have budgetary coverage," Ilie Bolojan explained.
According to the Prime Minister, the biggest mistake would be to build a budget based on "unrealistic assumptions."
"You saw what happened in 2025 when we started with a 7% deficit, reached 7.7% halfway through the year and ended at 8.4% on a cash basis and 9.3% on an ESA basis. I do not think it is right to proceed on such an assumption. Building a realistic budget is a fundamental element that guarantees predictability, that guarantees an economy which knows the direction it is heading in, that ensures the achievement of deficit and inflation targets, so that, as the effects of these adjustment measures pass, we may see, starting this summer in practice, economic recovery," Ilie Bolojan explained.
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