PHOTO Declic Protest to the government over the cut in special pensions / Billboards with the message “Ciucă has a special pension of 43,000 euros”, posted in Bucharest and on DN1

Dozens of Declic community members lined up at government hearings on Wednesday to make individual demands for cuts in special pensions. During this period, in front of the Government, they sang and displayed a message over 10 meters long, with the text: “Cut off special pensions!”.

The protest in Piața Victoriei was doubled by the installation on DN1, in one of the busiest areas of Valea Prahova, of two billboards with the message: “Ciucă has a special pension of 43,000 euros. Are you stuck? Cut extraordinary pensions!” . A third panel has been installed in downtown Bucharest, according to a Declic community press release.

Photo source: Declic

“In addition to the requests presented by each participant in the protest before the Government, we have also presented to the Prime Minister the almost 140,000 signatures of citizens who want the elimination of extraordinary pensions. We know that it is difficult for Prime Minister Ciucă to cut special pensions, when he benefits himself, of more than 43,000 euros a year, which he accumulates with his salary,” said Cătălina Hopârteanu, coordinator of the Cut special pensions campaign.

Declic says that Romania has assumed, through the PNRR, that it will remove these privileges by the end of 2023. “Just one day before the protest, the Minister of Labor, Marius Budai, announced that the government is NOT in a hurry to meet this deadline Basically, the minister denied what he himself declared in Parliament 2 weeks ago, according to which the Government will adopt the project in a maximum of 3 days”, reads the press release.

Photo source: Declic

“We are tired of the statements and promises made by politicians. They won the election promising to eliminate extraordinary pensions and now avoid pursuing reform at all costs. We remind them that this lying behavior will be taxed by citizens at the polls. The community Declic is fighting for the elimination of inequalities called special pensions and will not stop until these pensions are cut,” said Cătălina Hopârteanu, coordinator of the Cut Special Pensions campaign.