Judge Kristian Danilec presided over the last court session on Wednesday together with his colleagues from the Cluj Court, judges, secretaries and prosecutors. With tears in his eyes, he spoke to colleagues about dignity and honor and claimed he did not want to go, but the humiliation of disciplinary action put an end to that.

“We shouldn’t bully ourselves in this profession, but don’t let others bully you. In this last message of mine, I tell you to keep your dignity, that is the most important thing. Don’t let yourself get trampled… It’s not normal conditions right now, and I say this with my hand on my heart… To be honest, I hope we don’t see each other again, in the sense that I don’t want to be in a supporting profession. I don’t want to deal with justice anymore. I will remain in the public sphere, at some point, perhaps in the political sphere,” the judge told his colleagues, according to clujjust.ro.

At a meeting last Wednesday, the CSM Judges’ Section decided to submit a proposal to President Klaus Iohannis for the dismissal due to the resignation of Judge Kristi Daniletde in the Cluj Court.

“I am leaving this profession with the conviction that I could not have done more for the independence of justice, the dignity of judges, the correct application of the law for citizens.

I tried to be professional in all situations in which I found myself in the courtroom. I respected magistrates, I respected clerks, I considered lawyers colleagues. We treated the involved parties humanely. We cooperated properly with state institutions. I have trained hundreds of students and young master’s students at the faculty and at the National Institute of Technology, who are now my colleagues,” Danilets wrote on Facebook.

He says he will continue to educate the younger generation “in the field of law and justice”, hoping to attract “better and more competent people who will bring added value to society, promote human rights and support the state” into the justice system. right. I leave with a sense of fulfilled duty!”, the magistrate also wrote.

Tired of commuting and “better conditions”

On Friday, 48-year-old judge Kristi Danilec announced that he has decided to retire.

“I have submitted my resignation to the High Council of Magistrates and I hope it will be approved so that the President of Romania can sign the resignation decree,” Judge Cristi Danilec told Bihoreanul on Friday, clarifying that in January of last year, he gained 25 years of experience in the master’s degree.

When asked about the reasons that forced him to apply for retirement, Danilec revealed that “mainly” it was due to the fact that he was tired of traveling to Cluj from Oradea, where he has settled since 2020, but also that now there are “better” conditions. for retiring magistrates. “There comes a point when you say you’ve done enough and you can’t do more. I have now reached such a point in my career. After 25 years, I will stop my activities in the master’s program,” Danilec wrote on Facebook.

He said he wouldn’t say “STOP!” to his other problems and that he will continue to be present in the public space to “praise what is done well and criticize what is done badly in the legal and judicial field.”

“I will focus more on the legal education of people, which I plan to expand from children’s, which I have been doing for many years, to adults. I will continue to train students to become better lawyers than I am. I will devote more time to my family, as they deserve,” he wrote.

Three lawsuits were won by CSM

In April 2023, Christi Danilec won at the High Court of Cassation and Justice CSM’s third trial against his removal from the judiciary and returned to his position as a judge in the Cluj court.

After this decision, Danylets was supposed to receive the owed salary from December 2021, when he was removed from office, until now.

Previously, Danylets won two more lawsuits against CSM with the same goal of preventing him from going to trial.

Thus, in February 2023, the Supreme Court annulled the decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine from May 2022, by which Danilts was excluded from judicial power due to the fact that he carried out political activities through two public organizations.

In particular, Danilets was sanctioned because he was a member of two non-governmental organizations that published critical communiques against the government.

Christy Danilec was also expelled from the CSM Master’s in December 2021 for the manifestations he allegedly had on several social networks. It is about two posts on the TikTok social network, which, according to Danilets, are not about justice, but about private life.

And in this case, Danilets challenged the CSM’s decision in court, winning the case.

The members of the CCM who expelled Danilec from the magistracy have meanwhile completed their mandate, and the head of the judicial inspection, the institution that drew up the sanctions protocols, has also left the system.