Tensions in the Coalition after Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan rejected the PSD proposal regarding the formation of a working group for a new law on magistrates' pensions. The Social Democrats got up from the table and left the meeting.
Sorin Grindeanu and Ilie Bolojan. Photo Inquam Photos George Calin
There was scandal in the Coalition meeting on Tuesday, after Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan rejected PSD's proposal to create a working group to draft a new law on magistrates' pensions. Political sources said the Social Democrats got up from the table and left the meeting at Victoria Palace in protest at the prime minister's decision.
Ilie Bolojan would have conveyed to the government partners that the executive will prepare a new reform project by itself, after the Constitutional Court rejected the current law.
The interim president of the PSD, Sorin Grindeanu, had previously declared in the Parliament that he would ask the Coalition to quickly set up a working group that would also involve the CSM, in order to avoid a new rejection by the Court. “It is clear that somehow it was fast forward. We must have a dialogue with the associations of magistrates and with all the relevant actors in the field. A clear regulation on magistrates' pensions is needed“, said Grindeanu.
The Coalition meeting continued without the PSD representatives, while tensions between the two governing parties deepen.
We remind you that on Monday the judges of the Constitutional Court decided that the law that was supposed to change the special pensions of magistrates is unconstitutional. Concretely, after postponing the decision twice, today they announced that the reform of magistrates' pensions violates the fundamental rules of the state. The reactions were not long in coming.
