Romania's Supreme Council of Magistracy (CSM) says that the country's judiciary should be respected through social status, political decency, European wages and pensions, which are the expression of responsibility and the strict prohibitions that they have to face, agerpres reports.
In a press statement released on Monday, CSM says that following a meeting at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace organised at the initiative of President Nicusor Dan and amidst an "extensive interview given by the CSM chair on Friday, lasting over an hour, from which a fractional audio-video montage of a few minutes was broadcast" that the statutes of the magistrates, in all their components, are "the guarantee of an independent judiciary, essential to the normal functioning of society as a whole."
"We all want a justice system that makes sure that our rights are respected as citizens, but the judiciary should also be respected, through social status, political decency, European wages and pensions, which are the expression of the responsibility, complexity and workload of magistrates, as well as the incompatibilities and strict prohibitions that they have to face,' according to CSM .
The Romanian justice, like the rights of each citizen, deserves "attentive, unbiased listening."
"Although all these realities of the judiciary were underlined during the interview, they were omitted in the editing, so that the message conveyed was distorted by the truncated presentation of the fragments of the interview and the reversal of the flow in which they were communicated, ignoring the essential aspects. In the difficult political and budgetary context, it can be easy to extract only what you agree with, but it is wrong, because the reality of justice is a complex one, the solutions delivered as simple are in fact simplistic, and they do not solve the problem. The Romanian judiciary, as well as the rights of each citizen, deserves attentive, unbiased listening, it deserves what we, as citizens, expect from it, a clear approach, based on the law and on rights, as they are enshrined in the laws."
CSM adds that it is constantly oriented towards a balanced and honest dialogue, calling for responsibility in public discourse, which "is necessary to exclude incitement to hatred and to respect human dignity."
CSM Chair Elena Costache, was asked by Digi24 private broadcaster if 70% of the last net pay is a small pension, she replied that she finds it "little".
"I should make a small calculation; I haven't done it yet. Now I will assume a direct answer - yes, it seems small to me, and I will also tell you why it seems small to me. Let's see how much an average wage is. At the level of a court of appeal, monthly net is RON 20,000 lei; at tribunals is RON 17,948; at courthouses: RON 16.157. Let's apply 70% of these amounts. It would be a RON 11,309 lei pension. Under what conditions? To retire on such pension, what does it mean? At what age? 65 years old. Sir, I am not allowed to do anything as a judge," Costache said.
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