Gavrilita On Raising Salaries in the Constitutional Court: Not a Bribe, But an Encouragement

Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita explained why the government gave a negative opinion on the salary increase of the Constitutional Court judges. “As for the Constitutional Court judges’ salaries, several amendments were made, which concerned the reference value, the salary class and a specific increase for the Constitutional Court activities of the, and, in fact, the negative conclusion concerned this particular increase. The salary increase for judges of the Constitutional Court was actively discussed, but, in fact, the intention of colleagues in Parliament was more focused on raising the salary of the Constitutional Court secretariat, where salaries are not higher than the average salary in the economy. Only some of these amendments were discussed, and I want to say that the Constitutional Court is the most important body of judicial power. Raising wages is a government policy, and we should not use phrases like bribing anyone. In my opinion, the state does not give bribes to anyone through wages, but encourages people with a certain competence, a certain level of integrity, professionalism to remain in public service and not to leave, for example, to the private sector,” Gavrilita said on the air of the program on TV8, reports unimedia.info Recall that the salary increase for judges of the Constitutional Court was not approved by the Government at a meeting on December 3. Despite this, the relevant budget changes were approved at a meeting of the Parliament on December 6. Subsequently, President Maia Sandu returned to Parliament a law providing for an increase in salaries for the Constitutional Court judges. Point