“I had the sensation that the Government endorsed the amendment,” Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu said, referring to the amendment by which the salaries of judges of the Constitutional Court were to be raised twice. He noted the amendment was put to the vote in the absence of the Government’s appraisal owing to defective communication with the Cabinet, while the doubling of the pays of CC judges remains for next year, IPN reports.

Speaker Igor Grosu said that owing to the hurry in which the draft state budget law and the daft budgetary-fiscal policy document were examined, the Government’s negative appraisal of this amendment was overlooked. After the President of the Republic of Moldova refused to promulgate the budgetary-fiscal policy law, this will be reexamined in Parliament, but without the troublesome amendment.

“Things were hurried because we were to send the whole package of laws to the IMF Board by December 6. When you hurry up, such things happen. The Court will not pronounce on this law as it was sent back. We decided to act calmly this time. We will adopt the law without this amendment and will later discuss with the Executive to see what raises can be applied in the case of the employees and judges of the Constitutional Court,” Igor Grosu stated in the talk show “In Depth” on PROTV Chisinau channel.

The Speaker insisted that the judges of the Constitutional Court deserve to have their pays doubled so that they become fully incorruptible and ensure the proper functioning of the High Court. The initiative to raise the pays of CC judges will be reexamined next year, when the state budget is amended as these people should be out of any temptation.

President Maia Sandu sent back to Parliament the budgetary-fiscal policy law for 2022 because the amendment by which the specific bonus of the judges of the Constitutional Court is raised from 40% to 100% wasn’t endorsed by the Government. If the amendment had been accepted, the pays of CC judges would have been raised from 44,000 to 82,000 lei a month.