Dacian Cosmin Dragoș Photo: Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
The Bucharest Court of Appeal has issued the decision in the second trial in which the AUR lawyer Silvia Uscov tried to suspend the constitutional judge Dacian Dragoș. On Wednesday, when the Constitutional Court again has magistrates' pensions on the agenda, the Court of Appeal is expected to pronounce the decision on the first request for suspension filed by the lawyer Uscov against the constitutional judges Dacian Dragoș and Mihai Busuioc.
The court rejected as inadmissible the lawyer's request to suspend the judge proposed at the CCR by the president Nicușor Dan. The decision of the Bucharest Court of Appeal is not final.
The trial in which the Bucharest Court of Appeal ruled today was opened by AUR lawyer Silvia Uscov on January 12, after at the end of the year she asked the same court to suspend the acts by which Dacian Dragoș and Mihai Busuioc were appointed as judges at the CCR.
After the Bucharest Court of Appeal successively postponed the verdict in the first case, Silvia Uscov opened the second trial in which she filed both a request to cancel the decree by which Dacian Dragoș was appointed, as well as a second request for suspension.
“Some were so surprised”
The lawyer explained on Monday evening, in a post on Facebook, about the second approach, on the court's portal only “cancellation of administrative act” is mentioned in the subject of the file.
“Tomorrow the second request for suspension will be judged, the first being still unpronounced and having a deadline of Wednesday, February 11, 2026. Some were so surprised that they also set a short deadline for me, that I end up judging myself on the second request until the first is resolved,” the lawyer wrote.
Silvia Uscov said that during Monday she was notified that Dacian Dragoș and the Presidential Administration had filed a request to relocate the file from the Bucharest Court of Appeal, but after a few hours she was informed that they had given up the relocation request:
“At 2 p.m. I received by e-mail a relocation request submitted by the lawyers of judge Dacian Dragoș to the ICCJ, to which were attached articles from the media disparaging the CAB. My reaction: if a CCR judge does not trust the CAB, then why would any other citizen? At the CAB, any citizen is judged by the central authorities of the Romanian state. So what's the point? Shall we abolish the CAB? At 7 p.m., so after 5 hours, I receive an e-mail formulating a request to waive the judgment of the displacement request from CCR judge Dacian Dragoș”.
On the role of the Supreme Court, the relocation request submitted by Judge Dacian Dragoș and the President of Romania appears, on the court's portal, as having been submitted on January 12 and still has no court date.
The unprecedented action against CCR judges
The first requests to suspend judges Dacian Dragoș and Mihai Busuioc were registered on December 30 and 31, 2025 at the Bucharest Court of Appeal, they received a quick deadline, compared to other similar files. The two requests were connected to the first court term.
Silvia Uscov contests the appointments of the two judges claiming that they do not meet one of the conditions to be appointed as a CCR judge, namely a seniority of at least 18 years in legal activity or in higher legal education.
Dacian Cosmin Dragoş, appointed by President Nicusor Dan as a judge at the Constitutional Court, is a university professor at the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences and PhD supervisor at the Faculty of Law of the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. He replaced Livia Stanciu.
Mihai Busuic, former president of the Court of Accounts, proposed by the PSD and supported by the government coalition, was voted by the Senate for the post of judge at the CCR, replacing Marian Enache, who also held the position of president of the Court.
The Bolojan Government's project to modify the magistrates' pensions is blocked at the Constitutional Court. The decision was postponed four times, following the boycott of the four judges appointed to the CCR at the PSD proposal. On Wednesday, February 11, the CCR has magistrates' pensions on the agenda again.
DOCUMENT Prime Minister Bolojan, message for the head of the Constitutional Court about magistrates' pensions / The project is blocked at the CCR, after 4 postponements
