CCR judge Dacian Dragoș, asked on the street why special pensions are not cut. “It's not just up to me”
Constitutional Court Photo: Inquam Photos – Octav Ganea
Dacian Dragoș, judge at the Constitutional Court, said on Antena 3 that he is asked on the street or by acquaintances why special pensions are not cut. Dragoș added that, “in general”, people understand the explanations he gives.
The judge was asked if it happened to him that some acquaintances or even people on the street stopped him to ask him why the special pensions were not cut.
Dacian Dragoș confirmed, and when he was asked what he was saying to them, he answered: “That it doesn't depend only on me. That it also depends on the case. It's a vote, I didn't even say publicly how I vote and so on. We still haven't voted for this law actually on the merits, because before it was rejected by procedure, by opinion. So that word, it's just speculations about how each of us will vote.”
When asked if people understand the explanations he gives, Dragoș said, “Generally, yes.”
On the observation that society believes that special pensions should disappear, the Court judge stated:
“It is a difficult decision, each judge has his own conscience and his own principles that he applies in the operationalization of these analyzes on the laws that come before the Court and it is actually a difficult law. There was no decision made due to the fact that documents were analyzed and so on, but I don't want to say more because it is still being worked on. But I really believe that soon we will have a decision on the pension law as well.”
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