What Kelemen Hunor proposes after the law on magistrates' pensions was rejected by the CCR: “It would close this subject for a long time”
Kelemen Hunor, Photo: Inquam Photos / George Calin
The government should resume the procedure for the project on the pensions of magistrates, believes the president of the UDMR, Kelemen Hunor, who says that he would organize a referendum on the retirement age.
“I saw the CCR decision by which they declared the law on pensions of magistrates unconstitutional on extrinsic grounds, so not on the content, but on the procedure. If the reasoning of the decision will confirm this, then, from my point of view, we must do two things: the Government and the coalition, but first of all the Government must resume the procedure, send the bill, as it was adopted, to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate for the meeting reunited. (…) Let's wait 30 days and after that let's resume the liability hiring procedure and with exactly the same content let's pass the law through Parliament once again (…). This is the first thing that must be done”, said the UDMR leader, on Monday, in a statement for Agerpres.
In Kelemen's opinion, a referendum would close this issue.
“And the second thing I would do – I would organize a referendum with the following question: “Do you agree that the retirement age should be uniform for every citizen? Yes/No”. And I am convinced that 90% of people would go to the polls and vote for the retirement age to be the same for every man, whether he is in the army, the judiciary or the police. So I would hold this referendum in order to close this subject for a long time from now on”, the UDMR president said.
The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) admitted, on Monday, the referral of the High Court of Cassation of Justice (ÎCCJ) in relation to the law on the pensions of magistrates for which the Government pledged its responsibility in Parliament and established that the normative act is unconstitutional.
At the beginning of September, the United Sections of the ÎCCJ decided to refer the CCR in relation to the law on the service pensions of magistrates.
