The new president of the CSM, an “ardent” defender of special pensions. “A traumatized judge is a possible easily blackmailable judge”
Judge Gheorghe Liviu Odagiu will be the new president of the Superior Council of the Magistracy, starting on January 1, 2026.
Gheorghe Liviu Odagiu PHOTO: The truth
Judge Gheorghe Liviu Odagiu was elected on Thursday, during the Plenary session of the Superior Council of the Magistracy, in the position of president.
Five years ago, when he was president of the Alba Iulia Court of Appeal, he harshly criticized the governors of that time, who, just like today, were promoting a legislative project regarding the elimination of the service pensions of magistrates.
Although the projectile was about special pensions. Odagiu claimed that “un citizen does not need a judge in the courtroom to think about what he will live on in his retirement or what he will eat tomorrow”.
“A citizen needs a judge in the courtroom who has ensured all the comfort, comfort that will cause him to focus only on the problem of the respective citizen. If I think from tomorrow what I will eat in 20 years, I will certainly not be able to concentrate one hundred percent on the citizen's problem, and find a correct solution. In addition, this attack on service pensions is only the beginning.
A traumatized judge is a possible judge who can be easily blackmailed, he is a possible judge who questions whether or not to stay in the system and who wants to go to a private environment regardless of what it is, and Romania does not allow itself the luxury of losing magistrates who leave the system for a certain reason, that the state is not able to ensure another power in the state, that one or two powers are not able to ensure the third a real independence and a standard of living that effectively enshrines this independence”, declared in 2020 Liviu Odagiu.
The judge also opined that the service pension that the magistrates have is not unreasonable, but is one corresponding to the social status they have. “The whole system of incompatibilities and deprivations in the life of a magistrate justifies both the granting of a salary corresponding to the public service he performs and the granting of a commensurate service pension”, he claimed.
Magistrate Gheorghe-Liviu Odagiu, who is 50 years old, has been a judge since 2000 and held the positions of judge at the Sibiu District Court, judge at the Alba Iulia Court of Appeal, Criminal Section and president of the Criminal Section of the Alba Iulia Court of Appeal, then he was president of the Alba Iulia Court of Appeal.
