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Romania’s SocDem leader gets radical against PM Ilie Bolojan on magistrates’ pensions

October 24, 2025

Sorin Grindeanu, the interim leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the largest in Romania’s ruling coalition, has attacked prime minister Ilie Bolojan whose resignation he asked unless a committee is set up with the participation of the Supreme Magistracy Council (CSM) and the High Court (ICCJ) on re-writing the magistrates’ pensions law recently rejected by the Constitutional Court (CCR) on failures related to procedure,

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