President Maia Sandu on December 10 sent back to Parliament the law to amend a number of normative documents concerning the budgetary-fiscal legislation for 2022 for the reason that the Government’s appraisal of the amendment regarding the pays of judges of the Constitutional Court was absent, IPN reports.

According to the presidential press service, President Sandu decided to send back Law No. 204 of December 6, 2021 because the amendment concerning the pays of employees of the Constitutional Court that the law contains wasn’t endorsed by the Government.

After an amendment to the draft budgetary-fiscal policy signed by PAS MPs Olesea Stamate, Veronica Roșca and Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu was passed, the salaries of judges of the Constitutional Court were raised from 44,000 to almost 82,000 lei. But the amendment was adopted in the absence of the Government’s appraisal.

The Socialist MPs later said they will request the Constitutional Court to establish the constitutionality of the PAS’ amendment. According to them, the amendment was passed in the absence of the Government’s appraisal that is mandatory for initiatives that imply budget costs. Article 131, point 4 of the Constitution, which stipulates this obligation, was violated.