Parliament in Bucharest is in for more heated debates this
\nweek after two draft laws, on the abuse of office and special pensions – have
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Voting on the two bills has become predictable in principle, thanks
\nto the comfortable majority the ruling PNL-PSD-UDMR coalition is presently enjoying.
\nThe Chamber of Deputies is a decision making forum regarding these two bills. <\/p>\n
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The draft law on the abuse of office is to be endorsed
\nwithin a ceiling of 9,000 lei, (18 hundred Euros) above which the deed is to be
\ncriminalized and punishable with jail sentences for public employees- PSD
\nleader Marcel Ciolacu says. He believes that Justice Minister C\u0103t\u0103lin Predoiu
\nshould have assumed the aforementioned value limit as early as the draft’s
\ninitial form, and that should have prevented the first endorsement at a higher
\nceiling of 250 thousand lei. <\/p>\n
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Marcel Ciolacu: \u02baI am firmly
\nconvinced together with my colleagues from the PSD PNL and UDMR that this law
\nwill get promulgated with the ceiling of 18 hundred Euros, as proposed by the Justice
\nMinister. <\/p>\n
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However, the opposition USR has lashed out at the form
\nendorsed by the PSD, PNL, UDMR senators. <\/p>\n
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Stelian Ion: The
\nConstitutional Court’s decision imposed a ceiling, which was common sense,
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Also in spite of the oppositions’ protests, a draft on
\nreforming the special pensions paid to state employees has made it to the
\nChamber of Deputies. <\/p>\n
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Under the new amendments backed by the ruling
\ncoalition, no special pension has to exceed the incomes before the person’s
\nretirement. Accumulated pension plans have been banned and a tax of maximum 15%
\nhas been introduced for the non-contribution period. Unsatisfactory, says the
\nopposition, which has called for the introduction of the contribution system
\nfor all pensions irrespective of the activity domain. 200 thousand people are
\npresently benefitting from special pensions, most of them former employees of
\nthe country’s defence and public order structures. However, the former magistrates, judges and
\nprosecutors are presently enjoying the biggest special pensions, which can go
\nup to 36 hundred Euros, ten times above a regular pension. Reforming the
\ncountry’s pension system is a request provided by the National Plan of Recovery
\nand Resilience and we recall that the approval of roughly 3 billion dollars worth
\nof EU funds hinges on this plan. <\/p>\n
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Other bills on the Parliament agenda in Bucharest
\nmight be the new laws on education, based on Romanian president Klaus Iohannis’
\nproject entitled Educated Romania’. The
\nlaw is aimed at curbing school dropout and functional illiteracy, at placing
\nthe student at the center of the country’s educational process, at the same
\ntime backing the European cooperation of universities in Romania. The
\nopposition has criticized the draft laws as faulty and prone to cause
\nimbalances. <\/p>\n
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