Former Justice Minister Stelian Ion believes that "without a fair and balanced Constitutional Court, no reform will be possible in Romania", Agerpres reports.
"The abuses committed by the Constitutional Court judges are without precedent. I have said over time that without a fair and balanced Constitutional Court, no reform will be possible in Romania. Everything will run into the Constitutional Court. (...) After this episode, I believe we can all see once again the elephant in the room: the abuses of the Constitutional Court and the need to amend the law regulating its functioning. Until we take this step, we will constantly be blocked by the will of a few individuals promoted there on the basis of obedience, not honesty and professional competence," Stelian Ion wrote on Monday on his Facebook page.
According to him, "through the sabotage carried out by the four judges proposed to the Constitutional Court by the PSD, the draft law on magistrates' pensions has, for the time being, been compromised".
"The draft provided for entry into force on 1 January 2026, which clearly can no longer happen. If the four do not continue to boycott the meeting on 16 January and the objections of unconstitutionality are rejected, this law will have to be urgently amended by Parliament, preferably through a law published in the same Official Gazette as the law in question. However, that amending draft could also be challenged before the Constitutional Court. How does this whole story look from the outside? Do we seem like serious people, fully in control?" the former Save Romania Union (USR) minister added.
The President of the Constitutional Court, Simina Tanasescu, announced on Monday that the referral by the High Court of Cassation and Justice regarding the new draft put forward by the Bolojan Government on the reform of magistrates' pensions had been postponed until 16 January due to a lack of quorum.
According to sources within the Constitutional Court, the four judges proposed by the PSD to the Court - Cristian Deliorga, Gheorghe Stan, Bogdan Licu and Mihai Busuioc - did not attend Monday's meeting. They had also left Sunday's meeting and did not return for the debates.
The new draft law amending magistrates' pensions, adopted by the Government, provides for a gradual increase in the retirement age to 65. The pension amount may not exceed 70 per cent of the net remuneration received in the final month of activity.
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