The Senate meets, Wednesday, August 20, in extraordinary session. On the agenda of the plenary session there are two projects to approve some emergency ordinances of the Government, but also the debate and vote on an older proposal to increase the retirement age and to eliminate the special pensions of the magistrates. The initial is replaced by another Bolojan Government project.
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The senators take note of the Government issuance of two emergency ordinances, namely GEO 41/2025 for establishing measures in the field of managing the investments financed from the National Plan for Resility and Resility and from National Public Funds and GEO 40/2025 for amending and completing the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 202/2002 regarding the integrated management of the coastal area.
The plenary session is convened in an extraordinary session. On the agenda, the legislative proposal is included for the modification of some normative acts in the field of service pensions. The project was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies and provides for the gradual increase in the retirement age of the magistrates by 2045, up to 65 years. Another provision is the decrease of the calculation ceiling from 80%, as far as it is, to 65% of the average monthly income in the last two years before the retirement.
The project would be rejected by the Senate so that in the Parliament the project on the pensions of the magistrates initiated by the government, which provides for a maximum ceiling calculated at 70% of the last net salary, would be rejected in the Parliament.
The judges, the prosecutors, the judges of the Constitutional Court, the assistant magistrates from the High Court of Cassation and Justice and from the Constitutional Court, as well as the legal specialized personnel with a total seniority of work for at least 35 years, of which at least 25 years realized only in these functions, can retire at the age of 65.
The project waiting to be rejected came to the request of the former candidate for the presidential elections, Crin Antonescu, being initiated by the former PSD-PNL coalition, with the support of UDMR and minorities.
