Deputy Prime Minister Tanczos Barna contradicts the head of the SCM in the scandal regarding the pensions of the magistrates: “I cannot agree that a pension of 11,000 lei is small”
Deputy Prime Minister Tanczos Barna told Digi24 on Monday that, although he understands the special status of the magistrates, a pension of 11,000 lei does not represent a small pension, thus contradicting the head of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) who recently said that a pension in amount of 70% of the net salary is insufficient.
“I can agree with the fact that they are unique (judges and magistrates no), that it is a unique system, that it is a system that needs a special approach, as, in fact, a special approach from a payroll, retirement, retirement age, prohibitions to carry out other activities, prohibitions to have other categories, which have any other categories. Unfortunately, even with that I could agree.
The deputy prime minister stressed that in Romania the average pension is up to 4,000 lei.
“If we refer to the average pension, if we refer to the number of pensioners who are on the beach of 3,000-4,000 lei, if we refer to those who live from a minimum pension, guaranteed by the state, if we refer to those who are still, people who have retired after working in agricultural cooperatives, we cannot say that 11,000 lei is 11,000 lei. The other member states of the European Union can compare with what we want.
The Deputy Prime Minister added that “we must always be with both feet on the ground and see the daily reality in the country.” “I agree – the magistrate career must be a career that offers predictability, which offers safety, offers the chance to have a decent living even after retirement, but we must always be with both feet on the ground, to see the daily reality in the country and to relate to the purchasing power, to the state, to the state, to the state, Which, after all, completes the net salary of a magistrate and leading to an average, monthly income, well above all other categories, ”said the Deputy Prime Minister.
About the reform of the special pensions, the Deputy Prime Minister said that this is essential for both the sustainability of the economy and to respect the commitments made by Romania within the National Plan for Redress and Resility (PNRR). “The reform is a profound one, it is one that has not been done for decades, it is an absolutely necessary reform from the PNRR prism, because the state will lose hundreds of millions of euros, if we do not make this reform we have committed. The reform must be the result of a dialog. it.
The Deputy Prime Minister added that, from his point of view, “not because the Romanian state would lose a lot-because this PNRR program would enter an area of vulnerability and I do not think it is fair that when everyone contributes something, with-5, with -10% of revenues to this effort to return to a normal fiscal-I do not believe from a fiscal point.
The head of the SCM said that the pensions of 11,000 lei are small
The president of the SCM, Elena Costache, said in an interview broadcast on Saturday by Digi24 that a pension in 70% of the net salary of a magistrate-about 11,309 lei-is insufficient and that the independence of the magistrates depends on the money.
Asked if he considers 70% of the last net salary as a small amount, Elena Costache has assumed a “direct answer”.
“I should make an exact calculation, I have not done it yet. Now I will take a direct answer-yes, it seems a little and I will tell you and why it seems a little,” said Elena Costache.
On Monday, the SCM broadcast in a press release that the interview had a duration of “over an hour” and accuses that “a fractional audio-video mount was broadcast for several minutes”. In reply, the television station decided to publish the interview in full.
