The plenary session of the Council of State and the Court of Auditors, through their decisions, from 2014, 2015 and 2016 unlawfully and unconstitutionally made the cuts of the 2nd MoU (Laws 4051/2012 and 4093/2012).
The Prime Minister pledged that the TIF implement the decisions of the CoS and the Court of Auditors, only for one category of pensioners, those belonging to the special pay scales of the State. For pensioners of the private sector, there is not even a word of mention. State Officials have known since 2015 that the plenary session of the Council of the State, with their decisions of 2287-2288/2015, decided that cuts made by the 2nd Memorandum were to be returned to pensioners of the private sector (State-owned enterprises, wage earners, etc.)
It goes without saying that there is unequal and unfair treatment. Thousands of pensioners have filed lawsuits with the courts in order to have the decisions of the CoS be implemented for them as well.
Recourse to the courts seems a one-way street for tens of thousands of private-sector pensioners who are seeking compensation for the illegal cuts suffered as a result of the 2nd Memorandum.
Undoubtedly, those who have retired prior to the Katrugala law live in fear of personally seeing a diminishment of the order of 30 euros to 350 euros per month from 1/1/2019.
As with the judgments of 2014, 2015 and 2016, we have put a barrier to the austerity and looting of the income of those who have retired, convinced that judicial struggles will bear fruit.
We await the decisions of the Plenary Session of the CoS for the unconstitutionality of the relevant provisions of Law 4387/2016 (Katrougalos’ law).
Undoubtedly, the 2012 cuts in pensions, principal and auxiliary, will be won in the Courts, as the decisions of the Plenary Session of CoS of the, in a just state, binds the lower courts
