The raising of salaries for all the categories of public sector employees is the current Government’s priority, said Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița. “We firmly believe that we must have decent salaries if we want to ultimately get rid of corruption in this country,” the Premier stated in a news conference when asked about the rise in the pays of Constitutional Court judges, IPN reports.
According to Natalia Gavrilița, a number of amendments to the draft budgetary-fiscal policy law were made and only one of these wasn’t approved, the one concerning the pay raise.
“As to the salary, not only of judges of the Constitutional Court, but also of the Secretariat of the Constitutional Court, I want to say that this is important as the whole public opinion focused on the salaries of judges, but it also went to the pays of the Constitutional Court’s Secretariat whose employees get a much lower salary,” stated the Premier.
Parliament adopted an amendment to the draft budgetary-fiscal policy signed by PAS MPs Olesea Stamate, Veronica Roșca and Speaker Igor Grosu in the absence of the Government’s approval of this change. The amendment raised the salaries of CC judges from 44,000 to 82,000 lei.
Asked about the given amendment, Speaker Igor Grosu said he had the sensation that the Government endorsed the amendment. He noted the amendment was put to the vote in the absence of the Government’s approval owing to defective communication with the Cabinet, while the doubling of the pays of CC judges remains for next year.
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 was formally disapproved by the Government.
