Chapter 465 Administrative Restructuring (I)

After Karaturi was sworn in as Prime Minister, he was required to promulgate the policy guidelines. However, before he promulgated his policy, Karaturi went to the royal palace. For there is one item in his policy that requires the full support of His Majesty.

In front of Eder stood the new Prime Minister, who flipped through the documents given by the Prime Minister.

"I didn't expect you to choose this as your policy policy."

After reading the document, Edel looked up at Karaturi and said.

This is a draft of the Romanian administrative restructuring that will change the current counties in Romania into cities. Administrative restructuring is a difficult task in any era, and this is not the time when there are fewer interests in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

This is a major operation on the Romanian bureaucracy, which is certainly not simple. Both Eder and Karaturi knew this in their hearts.

At present, there are three administrative divisions in Romania, one is the pre-World War I administrative establishment in Romania, which is mainly composed of county-level government agencies, plus a few important areas have established city-level government agencies. This was the structure of government in Romania at that time.

After the end of the war, Romania seized large areas of Austro-Hungarian and Russian territory, and the current administrative structure included both Russian and Austro-Hungarian government structures. After Romania took over the administration of the region, it found that the jurisdiction and political structure of the two places were different from those of the original Romanian state.

Take, for example, Lviv, which currently covers an area of 23,000 square kilometers and is home to 610,000 people. It was 2.8-4.1 times the size of the pre-World War I county government and 2.4-4.3 times the population of Romania. This can lead to a long period of discomfort after being transferred from the county level officials of the original Territory to the new Territory, as much of the previous experience becomes useless.

Moreover, at present, the Romanian government has too many institutions at the county and city levels, which is not conducive to the management of the central government. At present, Romania has 27 municipalities in the former territories (including those seized by Bulgaria), 16 in the former Austro-Hungarian territories (including Transylvania and Eastern Galicia), and 14 in the former Russian cities. Such a variety and number of government agencies make it quite troublesome for the central government to manage, and it is also easy to cause the authority of the central government to decline.

Therefore, in the draft submitted by Karaturi, he intends to change these counties, cities, and prefectures to provinces-cities-townships or towns. Moreover, with the help of this reform, the authority of the central government will be further expanded, and the centrifugal force that may be generated by local governments will be eliminated. However, the task is extremely difficult and requires him to think about it.

In addition, it is currently envisaged in Karaturi that Romania will have 17 provincial government agencies, followed by municipal institutions under them, and finally the townships as the basic administrative units.

At present, the more important regions of Romania will have municipalities, such as the capital Bucharest, the largest port city of Constanta, and Lviv, the future core of heavy industry, and perhaps other names. However, this needs to be done on a case-by-case basis, and at present, in his opinion, only these three regions meet the requirements.

However, in the establishment of these provincial institutions, Karaturi is also mixed with sand. Divide the areas where Romanians are in the majority and divide one or two other ethnic areas into a provincial body, so as to ensure the dominance of Romanians in the vast majority of the provinces as much as possible.

The establishment of new provincial-level government agencies is unlikely to satisfy the current city and county officials. Because they had the opportunity to work in the central government before, but now that they have a provincial-level government, they have completely stripped them of the possibility of stepping into the central government to serve as department leaders. Provincial-level officials must be promoted to the central government, which deprives many officials of the opportunity to work in the central government. Although the upside opportunities are widened, it will take time to build.

And those who have the ability may be happy about this, but the officials are a minority after all. In the face of the entire bureaucracy, even Eder had to think twice, so this was very difficult to do.

However, Karaturi felt that these changes had to be completed, so he could only say with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, this is also something that cannot be helped. These tasks have been left to me by Prime Minister Brettianu, and can only be carried out by me, as a successor. Moreover, it is impossible for me to continue to push back these tasks, which will affect the economic development of our country, which will outweigh the losses. ”

Hearing Karaturi's words, Eder felt that he had a point, and that he still needed to be supported. So after some thought, Eder said, "Now that you've decided this, I'll stand behind you." But you need to think seriously about doing this, and I don't want the government's work to be compromised. ”

After hearing Eder's words, Karaturi nodded very cautiously, knowing that as long as he didn't make a big mess, the king would be on his side.

"Thank you for Your Majesty's support, I will definitely make the local governments operate normally. And the establishment of provincial governments is not without benefits for these officials. I will give some of my position to those who support this reform. ”

After hearing that Karaturi already had a plan, Eder also knew that this was the best way to reduce the resistance. So he still admonished and said: "You still need to be well prepared before implementing this matter." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your understanding."

After gaining support from the king, Karaturi left the palace, and sitting in the carriage, he remembered his uncle's admonition to him. The old prime minister told him that the current dominance of the Liberal Party in Romanian politics has caused dissatisfaction among other political parties, and many people are watching his every move. The administrative restructuring is likely to cause a counterattack by other political parties and officials, and this kind of counterattack will be a huge test for a new prime minister.

Of course, Karaturi knows that his uncle is a little heavy, but this restructuring is also an inevitable result. Although his ability to govern is not as good as that of his predecessor, Bretianu, he thinks he knows very well about His Majesty Eder, who currently rules the kingdom, and has been with him for more than ten years. This was a very ambitious monarch, and many might think that his majesty was content with the present territory of Romania.

Only he knew that the territory he had acquired so far was far from satisfying the monarch's appetite. However, it was only the time to digest these territories, and his next appetite was expected to be either Bulgaria or Hungary.

Karaturi needs to follow in the footsteps of His Majesty, solve his problems, and by the way, engrave his name in this history. At least a great politician, still in line with his identity.

Now that he has the king's support, Karaturi naturally has no reason to back down. After a month of preparation, the announcement on the re-planning of the provinces-municipalities-towns in Romania was sent to all levels of government.

The next step is to look at Karaturi's political tactics.