Regionalization will not be made along ethnic lines, but on the basis of development, economic criteria, the main objective of the administrative organization, respectively the establishment of administrative regions, being to reduce development disparities, said Deputy PM Liviu Dragnea, also Minister for development.

“The counties will not be dismembered, staff will not be increased, no public spending will go up”, Dragnea pointed out on Thursday in a broadcast by Antena 3.

He announced that he was going to talk on this subject will all political parties, including the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), with representatives of civil society and specialists, because this project, which is due by the end of 2013, is maybe the most important one for Romania since the Revolution in December 1989.

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