The first step announced by the Hungarian Prime Minister to be, Viktor Orban, who is supposed to be invested at the end of the month, was to cut the number of ministries from 12 to eight (and the number of ministers from 15 to 10). At a time when there is talk of a government reshuffling and when one can see that restructuring of the public sector is infinitely more difficult than it was believed, would the reduction of the central administrative apparatus not be a signal that something is going in the right direction?
With fewer people in the Cabinet than Romania (15 ministers who are portfolio holders and a vice-premier who is not) anyway, the new rightist government of Hungary felt that 12 ministries (plus three portfolio-less ministers) in the Government was already too much.
Were he to embrace the Hungarian model, the Romanian Prime Minister would have to remove either the Economy or the Finance Ministry (therefore creating a single entity as was during the second half of the Tariceanu Government), the Transports Ministry, the Communications, Environment, Labour, Education and Health Ministries from the governmental organisational chart and include them in the remaining structures, thus keeping seven ministries in all.