Radu Marinescu Defends Dialogue with Magistrates and Rejects Allegations Regarding Lia Savonea’s Proximity to the PSD

Justice Minister Radu Marinescu rejected on Sunday evening, in an interview with B1TV, the accusations that the president of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, Lia Savonea, is close to the Social Democratic Party (PSD). The statement came after the head of the supreme court welcomed the change in attitude of the Niculescu Government toward the Executive previously led by Ilie Bolojan.

The PSD minister described the association with the party as “empty rhetoric” and argued that Lia Savonea’s position reflects the need for dialogue between the branches of government. Radu Marinescu stated that magistrates cannot be treated as mere executors of a government’s decisions and that institutional relations must be based on communication and mutual respect.

The discussion takes place in the context of outstanding salary-related obligations claimed by magistrates, estimated at approximately five billion lei. Marinescu said that dialogue is necessary so that the beneficiaries of these rights, secured through court rulings, can understand the current economic difficulties.

The minister also cited observations by the European Court of Human Rights, according to which, in exceptional circumstances, payment of certain entitlements may be staggered without canceling them.