PSD leader Grindeanu blames Bolojan government for 30 billion lei in unpaid bills

Grindeanu's accusation against the Bolojan government

PSD president Sorin Grindeanu used a Facebook post on Sunday, 25 October 2026, to attack the record of former prime minister Ilie Bolojan. He accused the previous government of impoverishing Romanians without saving the budget, and of sacrificing the economy while deepening the crisis. Grindeanu speaks from outside the government, while his party has sat in the Luca Niculescu executive since Tuesday, 20 October 2026. He framed his post as a pledge that PSD would change the country's economic direction.

“He impoverished Romanians, but did not save the budget. He only sacrificed the economy and deepened the crisis.”

Debt and deficit claims

Grindeanu pointed to a budget adopted in April that ran out in October, and to more than 30 billion lei in unpaid invoices, spending and obligations pushed into the future. He said Romania now has the largest budget deficit in the European Union after any methodology. He argued that the INS and BNR institutions confirm this, and that Eurostat and the European Commission do too. He wrote that Romanians have the right to know where the country is starting from.

Reforms and the cost to households

Grindeanu said the figures show that reforms over the past year were carried out "with a wooden sword", while the economy and Romanians' incomes were run over "with a tank". He held that the austerity measures fell on households and private businesses, and he called for work, investment and measures to restart growth and protect living standards. He also criticised what he called the digital chorus that applauds failure on social networks.

“We will change the direction of Romania. There is no way back here!”

Measures promised for the week of 26 October

He said PSD ministers would present concrete measures, with deadlines and results, in the week of 26 October 2026. The health portfolio is to secure funding for UPU units and ambulance services across the country. In agriculture, the plan is to unblock drought compensation and reopen talks with the European Commission to resume sheep exports. Transport work is to complete final checks ahead of opening a new section of the Tigveni-Curtea de Argeș motorway in November. The environment measures aim to unblock a revised environmental agreement for the mountain stretch of the Pitești-Sibiu motorway, without which only 45% of the worksite is being worked. Grindeanu also listed development, EU funds, economy, labour, defence, and justice, interior and pre-university education among the ten areas, including the unblocking of the "Work in Romania" platform for foreign workers, which thousands of entrepreneurs and Romanian firms have been waiting for over a month.

What comes next

The ministers' package has not yet been presented, so the measures remain announcements until they are set out in detail. Grindeanu also flagged talks in Brussels on saving PNRR money and an audit of all economic support programmes, and his post gives no dates for either. He closed by saying the party would continue "until the end" with what he called the desuserization of Romania.

“This trend must be reversed. PSD chooses to stand with real people.”