Prime Minister-designate Dacian Ciolos has sent to Parliament the governing programme, which has 13 pages and is divided into three chapters: vision, priorities and the action plan. Among the priorities of the new Cabinet is the unreserved support for justice independence.
The first version of the government programme was sent Sunday evening to the parliament and Monday morning, before the joint Standing Bureaus meeting, the parliament received another version of the programme.
The Action Plan includes 13 chapters: the strengthening of elective democracy and the rule of law, meant to create the prerequisites for resetting the political environment, the stability of the economic environment, the acceleration of state reform, education and health, agriculture and fisheries, energy, transport and infrastructure, social development, culture, media, minorities, environment, youth and sport, state and national security, foreign and European affairs, European funds, Diaspora and the final chapter, IT.
According to the governing programme filed by Dacian Cioloş, the new government should be “open and transparent, to have dialogue with central and local administrative institutions, with the civil society and with the citizens”.
The governing programme further aims at: “the opening of the political system by facilitating the legislative initiative of citizens and civic groups, fostering a constant dialogue with civil society, business environment, trade unions, employers’ organizations, professional associations and national minorities, creating online platforms for systematic interaction between the government and the society.”
The new government also aims at “the active positioning of Romania as a strategic player in the regional, European and international context , focusing on the neighbourly relations, affirming Romania’s political scale within the EU and the strengthening of the strategic partnership with the USA and observing the obligations as NATO member.”
At the same time, the government programme provides “the unreserved support for justice independence and to continue the fight against corruption”.
The ministers proposed by Dacian Ciolos are expected to start on Monday the hearings in the parliament committees, before the vote of investiture in office of the 18th Government of Romania on Tuesday, formed without a clear majority in Parliament and on conditional support from the parties.