Cristian Tudor Popescu challenges Ilie Bolojan: “I do not know how the prime minister could accept this robbery with the law in hand”

The writer and newspaper Cristian Tudor Popescu criticized Honday, before Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan announced the package of fiscal measures, the fact that the bonuses, the “huge salaries” and the special pensions are not directly targeted in the efforts to reduce the budget deficit, in the context in which, “he says”.

The newspaper also commented on retirement premiums for CCR judges and states that “I do not know how Prime Minister Bolojan could accept this robbery with the law in hand and then present the bloody package of cuts, discounts, tax increases on the heads of the citizens.”

“Will Bolojan pay the robe?”, Asks Cristian Tudor Popescu, in the message published on his Facebook page.

What CTP states:

• “N. Ceausescu and the consort deserved to be shot. Moral, the sentence from Târgoviște was straight. Legally, however, their judgment was a mockery of the idea of ​​law – I only remember that the decision to convict death was pronounced with immediately and appealed in 12 days!
• Those who then measured justice, prosecutors and judges, did it in exchange, from the Iliescu regime, the status of new nomenclature, practically intangible, for magistrates.
• Privilege insured to this day, under all masters. Decisions of the minds, for whom no one gives any account, dictated by swords, influence trafficking and political command. Huge salaries, special pensions, bonuses, bonuses, bonuses, collected without the right of appeal, for years and years.
• At their forefront, the judges of the RCC, the bastards who give themselves now, when people are burned in the pocket of austerity, in addition to the tens of thousands of euros they raise anyway, and a farewell gift, 36,000 euros, to undress the Vișiniu robe.
• I do not know how Prime Minister Bolojan could accept this robbery with the law in hand and then present the bloody package of cuts, discounts, tax increases on the heads of the citizens.“

The reduction of the excessive budget deficit will be done through three packages of measures that will be adopted successively in the coming months, Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan announced on Wednesday in a press conference.

Bolojan said that it proposes three packages of measures, which are a mix of income increases, a mix of spending discounts and a mix of staggers and investment prioritizations.

The first such package will be adopted by assuming the responsibility of the Government in the Parliament, the next week.

Among the measures that will be part of this project are VAT reassemble on two thresholds, general share to 21% and a reduced share of 11% (drugs, food, horeca), increase in dividends from 10% to 16%, increased alcohol, tobacco, fuel by 10%, freezing the increase of pensions and salaries in 2026 Pay the contribution to health, tax on banks' profits and gamble gains.

All the measures announced will enter into force from August 1, 2025, except for the increase of dividends taxes that will be applied from January 1, 2026.

The CCR was to discuss on Tuesday the granting of three allowances of 180,000 lei (approximately 35,000 euros) for the three judges who finish their mandate: Marian Enache, Livia Stanciu and Attila Varga, wrote G4 Media, citing official sources. That although the government had banned such payments.

The same sources said that the institution does not have this money in the budget stipulated for 2025. Therefore, noted the publication, the allowances could come from the investment budget.

According to the law of operation of the RCC, the judges who finish their mandate have the right to pay six net salaries. However, the Emergency Ordinance no. 156/2024, adopted in the mandate of former Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, prohibits “aids or, as the case may be, the allowances to retirement, withdrawal, termination of employment/service or to the reserve”.