The pays of the judges of the Constitutional Court as of next year will be by about 13,000 lei higher. This is an increase of 34%. The MPs adopted a relevant amendment to the budgetary-fiscal policy for 2022, which initially envisioned an increase in salaries from 44,000 lei to almost 82,000 lei, IPN reports.
The head of the Parliament’s commission on economy, budget and finance Dumitru Alaiba said there were examined the objections of President Maia Sandu to budgetary-fiscal policy, primarily as regards the increase in the salaries of CC judges. The Government disapproved of the measure, invoking the lack of financial coverage.
PAS MP Dumitru Alaiba noted that after the examination of objections, a partial pay raise was maintained.
BCS MP Vasile Bolea said the rise is of 34%. “Approximately 15,000 lei is added to 44,000 lei and the salary will be about 59,000 lei. The citizens of the Republic of Moldova should know the figures,” he stated.
Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu said it is better for the CC judges to be paid by the state than by bandits. “When they are paid by the state, they are responsible to the state. All the people from this state who work should be paid by the state, not by bandits,” he noted.
The bill was adopted by the votes of 59 PAS MPs.
President Maia Sandu remitted back to Parliament the law to amend normative documents concerning the budgetary-fiscal policy for 2022, arguing the Government’s appraisal of the amendment concerning the salaries of judges of the Constitutional Court is absent. The Speaker, who is one of the sponsors of the amendment by which the pays CC judges were doubled, said he had the sensation that the Government approved of this amendment.
