Bolojan, about the pensions of the magistrates: “If you do not want to disturb someone, at the end you will disturb everyone”
Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan holds a press conference on the new fiscal measures, at the Victoria Palace in Bucharest, July 2, 2025. Inquam Photos / George Călin
Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said, at Antena 1, that the reform of the pensions of the magistrates must be put into practice “with all the annoyances”. Asked if he was not afraid that the judicial system could not respond, the prime minister said that a dignitary must do what is necessary.
Invited to comment on the criticisms from the magistrates related to the changes of the retirement conditions, Ilie Bolojan said: “I have all the respect for the importance of the system (…), but there are things we cannot deny. The first signal that an area is aware of problems is to recognize them.”
According to the prime minister, there are three major problems of the system. The first is related to the blurry conditions of pay, which led to 20,000 processes initiated by employees of the judicial system that made the Romanian state pay 2 billion euros, having to pay in the future another two billion.
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The second problem to be remedied is the increase of the retirement age so that the magistrates can no longer retire at 47-48 years, an age at which they reach the level of experience that will allow them to excel in the profession. Finally, the third issue is related to the elimination of the possibility that the pension of a magistrate is at the level of the last salary collected.
“It is an aspect of responsibility, of social equity, but also of the health.
At the observation that the politicians would have managed the susceptibilities of the magistrates for fear of waking up in front of a prosecutor or judge, Bolojan replied: “In the honest way, when you are in a position you do what is needed, not what you do well. If you do not want to disturb someone, in the end you will disturb everyone.”
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Regarding the possibility of resignation due to a major blockage in the ruling coalition, Bolojan said that he has not posed the problem of renouncing the position of prime minister so far, but in principle, he does not want to stay in this position if he cannot achieve what he has proposed.
“When you are on a position and you see that you cannot do what is needed, you better go than to occupy a job where you cannot do what you need for your country or for your community.
