Expert Igor Munteanu says that the state does not have money for teachers because it lacks revenue and investment, while vested interests remain significant, TRIBUNA reports.

“Yesterday, Prime Minister Vasile Tofan publicly apologized to the teachers who had gathered to demand their salary rights. He confirmed that the salary increases promised for September 1 will no longer take place, that the salary law will enter into force on January 1, 2027, and that ‘it is not possible before 2027, either financially or administratively.’ The Prime Minister also pointed to the cause: the budget lacks resources, and the government needs a fiscal policy that will increase revenues. Formally, the Prime Minister’s logic is correct. Revenues come before salaries. But revenues do not materialize simply by announcing a new fiscal policy,” he stated.

According to Munteanu, fiscal policy determines how what has already been produced is distributed. Production comes from investment, new businesses being launched, goods circulating, and services being provided. Where these things do not happen, the cause is rarely fiscal.

“When the state sabotages its own laws, while state agencies target successful businesses or shut them down, other causes than fiscal ones should be sought.

Yesterday, some ministers said that the state has no money for teachers. The exact wording is different: the state has no revenue because it has no investment, because it lacks decisions, because administrative obstacles, brazen monopolies, and hidden interests are greater than what this state can handle and what stands behind it. The apologies cover the effect. The cause remains in the drawers,” Igor Munteanu emphasized.