Ilfov County Council president Hubert Thuma has demanded clarification from the central government on the amounts earmarked for local investment, citing a 2017 video of former Oradea mayor Ilie Bolojan that claims the state is confiscating city funds. Thuma argues that Ilfov, which supplies the Bucharest metropolitan area with schools, hospitals and infrastructure, is underfunded - he notes that almost a billion lei of income tax paid by Ilfov residents working in Bucharest is redirected to the capital. He proposes a unified metropolitan budget for the Bucharest‑Ilfov region, a plan also backed by Bucharest mayor Ciprian Ciucu. The dispute highlights tensions over fiscal autonomy and the distribution of national revenues between local and central authorities in Romania.

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