Boc government from crisis to growth. Photo: Agerpres

   

Mothers and guinea fowls  scandals

In February 2010 Emil Boc said in parliament that'' it's not natural for people who have Mercedes in the yard to receive social benefits. It is good that social assistance go to people who are living really in bad conditions in this country ".

"If we give such social benefits ,we  will not achieve the goal for social protection . Our goal is to help people out of difficult situation that they are '', he said.

Ioan Botiș has quickly become one of the names of Boc government extremely unpopular because of extremely harsh measures that he  had to take, ranging from cutting benefits to mothers , to a drastic reduction of benefits.

Minister of Labor was criticized harshly after promoted replacement of maternity leave from two years to a solution in which mothers could choose one to two years, but with benefits capped at a maximum of 1,200 lei a year ,  or one of a year ,with maximum 3,400lei.

The decision of Ioan Botiș  sparked more controversy by  drastic reduction in the number of people receiving social benefits , but also  their level.

Thus,  there were reduced social benefits  for children with disabilities , accompaniers , and for poor families, and earlier this year, over 70,000 people no longer receive social  benefits by not paying their debts to local taxes.  

He also promoted  the cut of   allowances and social  benefits for a number of categories, the so-called revolutionaries, caregivers  of disabled and  those with  dependent orphans..

Ioan  Botiș remained famous for having said, among other things, that people who have "a number of guinea fowl" they can not receive benefits.

The whole, however, after all these measures, the 2012 budget provides a decrease in social assistance  spending only 1.21% from 2011.

VAT increased to 24 percent, "a coalition mistake"

The decision to increase VAT was again one of the most controversial decisions of   government Boc  II.

It  will  be regretted  later, in June 2011, by President Traian Băsescu, who said that the VAT increase to 24% "was a political error that delayed exit from recession  with at least six months".

He placed the responsibility for raising VAT on the Constitutional Court, which not  approved the reduction of pensions at the level required by the government.

"Now, retirees pay a larger bill because of VAT. It was a great mistake, we will reel  a few more years," said Băsescu.

Resignation in the "land of Eugene Ionesco"

Government Boc II took  over Romania at the beginning of the crisis and  had  to resign when the economy seemed to show signs of recovery.

Thing that  made  the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung  government speak after resignation of government  Boc about   "theater of the absurd in Bucharest".

"No protests  forced him to resign Emil Boc, but his party," says Karl- Peter  Schwarz in his column appeared on the front page of  the German conservative  newspaper.

Romanian Ministry of Finance managed during  the week resignation "to place  bonds at interest rates within one year of less than six percent, collecting more money than the government had hoped."

"Courageous" governance

Journalist from Frankfurt  performance compares the  performance of Boc cabinet with that of previous one -led by National Liberal Tăriceanu, on the latter we learn that "he governed with  Greek  generosity".

Austerity imposed by the government  Boc tacitly and  accepted  by the Romanian  people  is regarded with astonishment  by the  German journalist.

"With patience and increasing  economic wisdom, Romanians made sacrifices , that  Germans, Italians, Portuguese and can not imagine. No other EU  government has done so much in such a  short  time" .

Both the  president and   former prime minister "had always risk awareness" that the  leading  party assumed , "DLP  facing the danger of large losses in parliamentary elections this autumn."

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