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TO UPDATE: The president of the PNL, Ludovic Orban, described as demagogic the approach of the parliamentarians who announced that they will resign before the end of their term in order not to benefit from a special pension.
“This demagoguery with the resignation before the end of the term that you no longer receive a special pension is simply a blatant lie. (…) It is dust thrown in the eyes of the voters and, unfortunately, not only the president of the PSD and other PSD leaders flirt with such demagogic positions in the middle of the electoral campaign. I am literally shocked by the total lack of respect of the PSD towards the Romanians, towards the people ”, declared the leader of the Liberals.
He said he did not believe that the PSD could be capable of “such false demagogy.”
The two, the president of the PSD, Marcel Ciolacu, and the leader of the Social Democratic deputies, Alfred Simonis, made the announcement on Facebook, stating that the only correct principle that should underlie the pension is contributivity: “the more you contribute, the more you receive “.
“I am going to resign from Parliament on the last day of my mandate so as not to benefit from a special pension. I did the same four years ago, I will do the same now. The law says that special pensions are granted only to those who have at least one parliamentary term In my mandate, the PSD has taken a clear course regarding this flagrant injustice against the millions of pensioners who have contributory pensions, “wrote Marcel Ciolacu on Facebook.
According to him, the only constitutional option is the taxation of special pensions, which exceed 7,000 lei, by 85%.
“We initiated and voted the law whereby all special pensions exceeding 7,000 lei are taxed at 85%. It is not enough, but it is the only constitutional option at the moment. I want to be able to bring down all those who have perched on it. Everest financier of special pensions. This year, the Orban government again missed a good opportunity, by refusing to issue an emergency ordinance for the elimination of special pensions, a regulatory act that would have been implemented immediately. A few thousand of millions of lei saved in this way would have been much more useful for Health in the fight against the pandemic or to prepare schools so that students can continue their educational process, ”Ciolacu wrote on Facebook.
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