Ilie Bolojan, compared to a “slaughterhouse entering the operating room” by a judge from the SCM, after the announcement regarding the pensions of the magistrates

“A friend, a neurosurgeon, told me, what are the consequences when a surgeon does not enter the operating room, but a butcher,” writes CSM Claudiu Drăgușin on Facebookcomparing this discussion with the announcement of Prime Minister Bolojan on the pensions of the magistrates on Tuesday.

“The destruction of any democracy begins with the destruction of the system of justice. Any dictatorship begins with the destruction of the justice system. I do not say it, history says. What we live today is the peak of a campaign to demonize a system that works well, in normal parameters, as it works in other states that we have been in the European, I do not Written, on Tuesday, Judge Drăgușin, member of the Superior Council of Magistracy, on his socialization page.

Claudiu Drăgușin says that “things are clear” in terms of the measures announced by Ilie Bolojan in connection with the modification of the system of retirement of judges and prosecutors, but “the beneficiary is in no case the citizen who, today, for different reasons (some, maybe, to understand) is tempted to applaud”.

In the message posted, the judge accuses Bolojan of “prefers to destroy the image of one of the state powers (which, unlike the others, has no other tools to defend themselves, except for the codes after which he judges).”

“A short time ago a friend, a neurosurgeon, told me, what are the consequences when, under the pretext of saving a patient, a surgeon does not come into the operating room, but a butcher.

CSM: All the measures announced are registered “in the stigmatization campaign” of the magistrates

Following the measures announced on Tuesday by Prime Minister Bolojan, and the Superior Council of Magistracy criticized the way of public communication of the measures decided by the Government, specifying that this approach “is specific to a true dictatorship and without any consultation of the judicial authority, represents an abusive and discretionary manifestation of the prerogatives of the executive power, which the principle of the Public Power and the power status in the state of justice ”.

Increasing again the retirement age, the sudden increase of the seniority in office necessary for retirement, as well as the drastic decrease of the amount of the service pension, after all these elements have already been substantially modified by Law no. 282/2023, entered into force from January 1, 2024, are obviously capable of defeating the principles of legal security and legitimate expectation that should be for the legislation legislator, the SCM points out.

Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan announced on Tuesday the increase of the retirement age of the magistrates to 65 years and the decrease of the amount of the pension to 70% of the last net salary.

“We propose the increase of the retirement age and the entry into the system of justice in a standard age of 65. Also, compared to the age that today provides for the 25 -year law, which allows the retirement to 48 years, we propose an increase in age after which you can retire at 35 years. He wants, but not at 48, but at 58 years old.

Bolojan stressed that these proposals would eliminate an inequity from the society, specifying that by the end of this week a calendar regarding the debate and approval of the project will be announced.

Currently, magistrates can retire if they are 25 years old in the legal field, the amount of the pension being 80% of the gross income received in the last month.