The Minister of Labor made a series of extremely important announcements regarding the pensions of millions of Romanians throughout the country, the first very important disclosure having to do with pillar 2 of pensions, which is not to be nationalized, something known for a long time.
The Minister of Labor also talks about the changes for the national pension system which are currently under discussion, but which are far from being finalized for a legislative package to be adopted by the governing coalition.
"Let's clear it up and thank you for the question. The situation is as follows: the Ministry of Labor has no authority here. The duties of the Ministry of Labor on Pillar Two are only related to the transfer of sums of money to private administrators and the preparation of those lists and recapitulations of the sums of money.
I received from ASF, that's where the specialists say, that text that you see posted in public transparency. They also wrote to you from there, the Ministry of Labor and the Government had no reply. The ASF does not have the possibility, according to the law, of legislative initiative and then this had to be taken over and brought to the Government.
About nationalization I have said several times, the prime minister also answered, PSD president Marcel Ciolacu also answered, we do not discuss such a thing. It's just a talk of some people who want to be heard on TV. From this point of view, you know very well, in December 2021, through a memorandum, in the Government meeting, it was approved the creation of a working group made up of ministers whose laws are included in the PNRR and were passed there.
We are at work, we have repeated meetings, we are waiting for every ministry. I practically, not Marius Budai, I the Ministry of Labor are advanced in the construction of what we have on the public pension system and we are also waiting for your colleagues with your inputs. It is certainly not and is our main concern. Just as today we approved a final milestone for the third quarter, so we will proceed in the fourth quarter and in the fourth quarter we will meet the deadline. I am inside the discussions.
I don't think it is constructive to give details of the discussions, regardless of whether we are discussing the public system based on contributions or the system of allowances and pensions established and paid on the basis of special laws. I repeat, for sure you will have the final information, but we are now under construction and there is no point."
