It is well known that any reaction from a major party leader in any EU member state is closely monitored at the level of EU leadership, which then proposes and takes measures depending on the political and economic stability of the respective country.
Prime Minister Bolojan’s advantage is that, at the EU level, Sorin Grindeanu lacks credibility, and his attempts to overshadow and minimize Bolojan’s remarkable results in restoring the country’s finances and economy have not been considered credible.
Meanwhile, in the country, following Grindeanu’s statements, the Stock Exchange closed in the red, and this is not the first time that irresponsible statements made by Grindeanu have negatively influenced trading on the Stock Exchange. Here is what former President Traian Băsescu stated regarding Sorin Grindeanu’s remarks:
“I would say that Bolojan demonstrates that he is Romania’s Prime Minister, not the coalition’s, not Grindeanu’s. I think this correction must be made regarding whose Prime Minister Bolojan is. We are talking about certain adjustments aimed at restoring Romania’s budget deficit (…).
It is not possible that, while the Prime Minister is negotiating at the Commission with commissioners the adjustment of this PNRR in such a way that we lose as little money as possible or none at all, the messages coming from Bucharest should be: we are dismissing him, we no longer want him as Prime Minister. Any statement from Bucharest related to the Government reaches Ursula von der Leyen’s desk.”
Sorin Grindeanu and his close associates are furious that they cannot control Bolojan as they did Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă, that they cannot summon him to give orders or dictate to Finance Minister Alexandru Nazare what he should do, as they did with Liberal minister Marcel Boloș, co-author alongside Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu of the “black hole” in the state budget.
Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan and Finance Minister Alexandru Nazare want the 2026 budget to be a sound one, based on real figures and subject to thorough and lawful control over public spending—requirements that are by no means to Grindeanu’s liking or that of those in the PSD.
Grindeanu is extremely dangerous and has shown Romanians this “quality” of his as a politician through his stance of protecting the special pensions of magistrates, with whom he negotiated in the Chamber of Deputies, bypassing the Prime Minister’s authority.
If Grindeanu does not secure in the budget funds for electoral handouts, money for PSD mayors, and other needs of party members holding key state positions, then, with the support of union leaders, he will organize massive protests by public sector employees, attempting to remove Prime Minister Bolojan from office.
It would be far more risky for the PSD not to vote for the budget law in Parliament, because it would then become responsible for all the financial, economic, and social chaos the country would fall into.
A scoundrel like Grindeanu—the author of Ordinance 13, the free traveler on Nordis company planes to parties and sexual orgies abroad—is capable of anything, though he also possesses a dose of malevolent cunning.
When the scandal over Ordinance 13 escalated, Grindeanu immediately distanced himself from Liviu Dragnea and reversed the ordinance through another one repealing it. So far, in all his battles with Prime Minister Bolojan, Grindeanu has been the loser. Will he be this time as well? It is hard to say, because the stakes are extremely high: the survival of the PSD, now on the brink of collapse—brought there by Grindeanu himself.
Ioan Mamaische
