USR leader, message of “solidarity” with Oana Gheorghiu / Minister of the Environment: “How many criminal complaints did the CSM make when the corrupt escaped through the fingers of justice?”
Dominic Fritz, at the USR congress held in Bucharest, June 21, 2025. Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
The President of USR, Dominic Fritz, sent a message of “solidarity” with Deputy Prime Minister Oana Gheorghiu, complained by the Superior Council of the Magistracy (CSM) to the General Prosecutor's Office after criticizing the magistrates' pension system. A message was also sent by the USR Minister of the Environment, Diana Buzoianu, who did not mention Gheorghiu in the post, but addressed a few questions to the CSM.
“Solidarity with Oana Gheorghiu. Freedom of expression is sacred,” USR leader Dominic Fritz said Monday evening in a Facebook post.
The Minister of the Environment in turn wrote a post on Facebook, asking the CSM some questions “out of curiosity”, without mentioning Oana Gheorghiu.
“Just out of curiosity: How many criminal complaints did the CSM file against prosecutors and judges when the country's corrupt were slipping through the fingers of justice? When hundreds of files were prescribed one after the other… it wasn't criminal, right? Out of curiosity: How many criminal complaints are filed by the CSM against those who decided in court that minors under 10 years old gave their consent to sexual acts so as not to be classified as rape? But for the files in which people who have cleared hundreds of hectares of forest illegally got away clean as a tear?”, wrote Diana Buzoianu.
The reactions of the two come in the context in which, on Monday, the CSM accused the Deputy Prime Minister Oana Gheorghiu of committing an “attack” on the judicial power, through the statements about the magistrates' pensions. In an unprecedented move, the CSM said that it “decided to notify the bodies empowered to carry out investigations under the aspect of committing the crime of incitement to violence, hatred or discrimination”.
The CSM invoked the statements made by Oana Gheorghiu in a show broadcast on Saturday by Digi24, in which the deputy prime minister compared the magistrates' pension system to “a kind of Caritas” and told the employees in the sector that “if that money has to go to them because they give sentences, they get it from somewhere and can take it from the mouth of a child who goes to bed hungry”.
