The Minister of Justice claims that his ministry has not initiated any project on magistrates' pensions. Marinescu: “Mr. Premier presented a basis of ideas”
Minister of Justice, Radu Marinescu. Photo source: Inquam Photos / George Călin
The Minister of Justice, Radu Marinescu, stated, at Antena 3, that the project announced by Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan regarding the pensions of the magistrates is “a basis of ideas”, specifying that the ministry he runs has not initiated a draft law in this regard. However, a draft of the draft law was transmitted to the press at the Victoria Palace, a draft in which the expected changes, which had previously been announced in the press conference of the Prime Minister, were clearly provided.
“What today Mr. Prime Minister has done was to present a basis for ideas, a basis for solutions to be the foundation or premise of a legislative purpose which, from my point of view, can only be reached by the actual dialogue with the state that is represented by the magistracy. The Ministry of Justice has not initiated until the moment a draft law. the regulation of the service pensions in an effective initiation.
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“We do not want an experiment”
He said that there is a draft law in Parliament on the pensions of the magistrates and that it is possible to enter the parliamentary mechanism.
“At the moment there is no final legal formula on the vehicle, so to speak, legislatively, which will lead to the legislative purpose. It is possible to go to the parliamentary mechanism, because there is already a project initiated by the leaders of the coalition in the Parliament. It is possible to adopt a government formula a draft law, but then this mechanism will have to be formalized. said Radu Marinescu.
He said that, in terms of the pensions of the magistrates, “it is very important is the stability, respecting the fundamental principles that ensure the constitutionality of the law, because we do not want an experiment, but we want an success.”
“It is very important the dialogue with the European Commission, because in terms of the legislation regarding the status of the magistrate, it has a participation in another jar in the PNRR. It is important to dialogue with the European Commission and that is why we must take absolutely all the necessary measures to be protected by any kind of legislative approach,” Justice.
What the draft law provides for
The draft law on the service pensions in the judicial system contains changes of three normative acts in force, which changes the way of calculating pensions for magistrates, the auxiliary staff of the courts and of the Constitutional Court. Among the provisions of the draft draft law are:
- A unique computing formula for the entire judicial system
- The survivor's pension becomes accessible later for the surviving husband of a magistrate
- Some magistrates will be able to retire on the calculation formula in force
- The age as a notary or lawyer will no longer be assimilated to magistrate seniority
Document that provides for the project through which the pensions of the magistrates will be reduced. Categories that will receive pensions calculated on the current, more advantageous formula
It is difficult to ask for reforms from the citizens if the special pensions are maintained “at a level that means a great social injustice”, said the prime minister, in a press conference announcing the modification of the legislation on special pensions.
The retirement age will increase to 65 years for magistrates, and seniority will increase, from 25 to 35, from which they can retire, Bolojan announced. The pension of the magistrates will be a maximum of 70% of the last net salary, compared to 80% of the gross salary, as it is now, said Bolojan.
Bolojan said that the decisions of the Constitutional Court regarding the special pensions were analyzed, so that the new criteria meet what these decisions provide for the RCC.
