January 10, 2024
How to Understand Romanian Society in Five Minutes
Simply: by reading the lines below.
On 17 December 2023 I told you — and several national publications reprinted it — that “there is one system that truly works within the Romanian state, and that is the System, or the ‘Deep State’ as our strategic partner calls it, or, to use the older name, the Securitate.”
And I told you that under Iohannis’s terms of office the domestic service’s budget has risen fivefold — more precisely by 495 per cent — from 2015 until today, and that it rises again in 2024 by twenty-five per cent over 2023, reaching 5.45 billion lei, that is 1.1 billion euros.
In brief, I tell you today that although the foreign service’s budget grew in 2024 over 2023 by only 1.75 per cent, in 2023 it had already risen from 600 million lei in 2022 — itself a budget 44.7 per cent larger than in 2021 — to 719 million lei, which makes the 2024 budget 17.84 per cent higher than that of 2022. All in all, over the last nine years, under the mandates of Klaus Werner Iohannis, the foreign service’s budget too has grown almost fivefold — 482.5 per cent, to be exact — over the 2015 budget of 225 million lei.
The special telecommunications service’s budget also grew in 2024 in a perfectly normal manner for an election year, reaching nearly 1.9 billion lei — the largest budget in that institution’s history, up from 246 million in 2015, an eightfold increase, or 772.3 per cent to be exact.
Shall we add the protection and guard service to the pile? Very well. In 2024 its budget will be 353.413 million lei — thirty per cent less than in 2023 (no doubt Iohannis no longer has time this year to visit the other, as yet unvisited, half of the world), but two and a half times more — 267 per cent, precisely — than the 132 million lei it had in 2015.
In conclusion: in 2024 Romania spends on security men and security matters a total of 8.422 billion lei, against 1.994 billion in 2015 — that is 4.222 times more — while budget revenues rose from 107,413 million lei in 2015 to 308,205 million lei in 2024, an increase of only 2.86 times.
In a word: the security men’s budgets have grown almost twice as fast as they ought to have grown in relation to the growth of budget revenues.
And so?
On 19 December 2023 the 2024 budget was voted in Parliament.
Not one member of parliament tabled a single amendment concerning the services’ budgets.
Not one member of parliament uttered a single word from the rostrum about the shameless budgets of the secret services.
That’s a fact.
At 3.22 p.m. the AUR groups walked out of the plenary sitting because all their amendments to the Education budget had been rejected — annex 3/25, on which they did not vote either, being gathered at the central desk with placards reading “40 per cent for the teachers”. Yet not one AUR member of parliament, and not one other “independent”, said a single little word or tabled a single amendment concerning the shameless budgets of the security men.
In fact, between 3.58 and 3.59 p.m. — in two minutes — four annexes were voted:
3/31, the domestic intelligence service (216 for, 57 against, 5 abstentions);
3/32, the foreign intelligence service (226 for, 60 against, 1 abstention);
3/33, the protection and guard service (227 for, 60 against, 4 abstentions);
3/34, the special telecommunications service (231 for, 61 against, 2 abstentions).
On every one of these annexes: not a single amendment, not a single intervention.
Silence — although I had personally warned both the press and the leaders of the “opposition parties” as early as 17 December about the preposterous increases in the security men’s budgets. In vain.
Which proves once more what we already knew: that is why they are, and will remain, in Parliament — to keep quiet when they must, and to carry out the security men’s orders when they receive them.
That is why all who sit there “deserve” to be members of parliament of Securistan Romania.
And that is why others are not, and probably never will be…
Because so it is written in the stars — and by the stars in the forests of Romanian Securistan.
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