The CSM reacts to Kelemen Hunor's statements regarding the CCR consultation on the magistrates' pensions project: “An unacceptable and unprecedented incident”

The Superior Council of the Magistracy asked the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) and Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan for explanations after the recent statements made by the leader of the UDMR, Kelemen Hunor, in relation to the draft law on magistrates' pensions.

CSM reacted to Hunor's statements. PHOTO Eduard Enea

“The statements made by one of the leaders of the governing coalition, Mr. Kelemen Hunor, in a televised broadcast on October 27, 2025, regarding an unprecedented approach of prior consultation of the Constitutional Court, by the political factor, regarding the draft law for the amendment and completion of some normative acts in the field of service pensions, led the Council to adopt an imperatively necessary institutional position”, it is stated in a statement sent by the CSM on Tuesday.

Who initiated this effort?

The Superior Council of the Magistracy specifies that it addressed the President of the Constitutional Court and the Prime Minister of the Government of Romania requesting to communicate: who initiated this action; what is the procedure under which such a consultation was carried out and its legal basis; the form of the project that was the object of the consultation; the people who participated in it.

“The exceptional seriousness of the presented situation legitimizes the Council, in its capacity as the guarantor of the independence of the judiciary, to request the necessary information regarding this unacceptable and unprecedented incident, which creates the conditions for violating the constitutional balance between the executive and legislative powers, on the one hand, and the judicial power, on the other.” it is also shown in the communique.

“It affects the independence of the Constitutional Court”

The Superior Council of Magistracy considers that “it is necessary to assume the consequences inherent in such a particularly serious approach, which affects the independence of the Constitutional Court, a fundamental element of the rule of law, and transforms the constitutional jurisdiction into a consultant at the disposal of the Government, contrary to the constitutional order, at the same time placing the judiciary in a position of inadmissible inequality and inferiority in a democratic society”.

The CSM also specifies that the imperative provisions of art. 64 of Law no. 47/1992 regarding the organization and operation of the Constitutional Court, “clearly provide that its judges have the obligation to carry out their assigned function impartially, not to give consultations on issues within the competence of the Constitutional Court and to refrain from any activity or manifestations contrary to the independence of their function”.

We remind you that the High Court of Cassation and Justice also reacted to the statements of the president of UDMR, Kelemen Hunor, “regarding an alleged agreement of the ÎCCJ on the draft law on magistrates' pensions” specifying that “do not correspond to reality”.

The statements of Kelemen Hunor that caused the ÎCCJ and the CSM to react

Kelemen Hunor stated on Monday, on Digi24, that, before being adopted, the project regarding the reform of special pensions was also sent to the Supreme Court, “for analysis”.

“When the project was on the agenda of the coalition and after that it was on the agenda of the Government and it came to the Parliament, everyone agreed with the version proposed by the Government, with the increase of the retirement age, please, seniority to 35 years, 70 percent of the net income, the pension and the transition period of 10 years. Indeed, there was a discussion that it should be 15 years, but the Government, in the first project that was sent to the Court in the manner informally for the analysis, he put 10 years. And at the consultations with the magistrates, it was also 10 years. In the Parliament, no one had an amendment for 15 years during the transition period. Then what happened at the Constitutional Court happened“, declared the UDMR leader.

Kelemen Hunor also said that in Romanian society there is “nervousness and dissatisfaction” due to the fact that the Government and the Parliament fail to solve the issue of magistrates' pensions.

“This is where the nervousness appears, this is where the impotence appears in a way, because you cannot tell people that you are in Parliament, you have a majority and there is an area where you have not been able to legislate for years. You cannot. This is what happens.” said Kelemen Hunor at Digi 24, referring to the political deadlock on the reform of special pensions.

The president of the UDMR warned that prolonging this situation risks leading to a rift between politicians and citizens: