Lia Savonea sued the Government for the outstanding salary rights of the magistrates. Also ask for late payment penalties
The High Court of Cassation and Justice, led by Lia Savonea, filed an action at the Bucharest Court of Appeal on Monday, March 30, in which it sued the Government led by Ilie Bolojan.
Lia Savonea, head of the ÎCCJ PHOTO: Inquam Photos/George Călin
After the High Court of Cassation and Justice sent the Government, on Friday, March 27, a preliminary complaint requesting “unlocking immediately” of salary arrears earned by magistrates following thousands of lawsuits, on Monday, March 30, the supreme court headed by Lia Savonea filed an action at the Bucharest Court of Appeal, by which it calls the Executive to court.
“The High Court of Cassation and Justice, with headquarters in Bucharest, Bd. Octavian Goga, no. 2, sector 3, legally represented by president Lia Savonea, we summon the defendants: the Government of Romania, with headquarters in Bucharest, Victoria Palace, Piața Victoriei no. 1, sector 1 and the Ministry of Finance, with headquarters in Bucharest, Bd. Libertății, no. 16, sector 5
We request that by means of a court order:
1: obliging the defendants to make available to the plaintiff all the necessary funds for the payment of the outstanding salary rights of the magistrates, provided for in enforceable titles, due in 2026, provided in the Annex hereto;
2: issuance of administrative documents and carrying out all the necessary budgetary steps for the inclusion/full allocation of the requested sums necessary to pay the outstanding salary rights provided for in executory titles, due in 2026, including through budgetary rectification, if necessary;
3: the establishment by device of a maximum 10-day execution term as well as the fine provided for in art. 24 para. (2) from Law no. 544/2004, respectively the fine in the amount of 20% of the gross minimum wage per day of delay, on the responsibility of the responsible persons, namely the Minister of Finance and the Prime Minister of Romania, for non-execution of the obligation established by the final court rulings, as well as obliging them to pay compensation for non-execution;
4: we ask the court to apply penalties of 2% for each day of delay”, write in the official document.
The deadlock in the Coalition, solved with money from the Justice budget
Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan announced on March 19, after the coalition meeting, that a solution was found so that the social package requested by the PSD for pensioners and children with disabilities would be financially supported.
The compromise between the parties related to the social package requested by the Social Democratic Party was financed by cuts from the Justice budgets.
“Considering the problems we are going through and the crisis generated by the Gulf War, a formula was found by which the proposal related to the social package would be supported by the Coalition. We had two possibilities: the first was to increase the deficit with the tire necessary for the amendments in Parliament, but this option was not followed. The variant that was agreed upon is the reduction of other expenses: more precisely, we reduce the amounts intended to pay some rights obtained by magistrates through court sentences from past years and their postponement in the following years”. said Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan.
