The Presidential Administration officially explains why Nicușor Dan did not promulgate the law amending magistrates' pensions
Nicușor Dan posted a picture of him reading the materials received from the magistrates. Photo: Facebook / Nicușor Dan
The Presidential Administration broadcast on Tuesday clarifications regarding the law on magistrates' pensions, which passed the Constitutional Court last week, and when it will be promulgated by President Nicușor Dan.
The presidency shows that it makes this clarification “given the information that appeared in the public space regarding the existence of possible delays in the process of promulgating the Law for the amendment and completion of some normative acts in the field of service pensions, declared constitutional by the Constitutional Court on February 18, 2026”.
The presidential institution explains that, in accordance with “article 77, paragraph 3 of the Romanian Constitution, a law that has been the subject of a notification of unconstitutionality can be promulgated by the President of Romania only after receiving the decision of the Constitutional Court, confirming its constitutionality”. Thus, “after receiving the communication from the CCR, the law will reach the President of Romania for promulgation”.
CTP: “Why is President Dan late?”
The clarification of the Presidency comes after the journalist Cristian Tudor Popescu published a post on Facebook on Tuesday in which he says that he does not understand the reason why President Nicușor Dan has not yet promulgated the law that modifies the pensions of magistrates.
“Why is President Dan delaying to promulgate the law on magistrates' pensions, approved, after months of postponements, by the CCR? So that he can make an extra postponement?”, wrote CTP in the post that collected, in two hours, more than 5,000 reactions and hundreds of comments.
HotNews explained, after Cristian Tudor Popescu's post, that President Nicușor Dan cannot promulgate the law until the Constitutional Court officially sends him the decision and until the decision is drafted and published in the Official Gazette.
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Why hasn't the law been enacted yet?
The CCR decided last week, on Wednesday, that this law that the Bolojan Government assumed responsibility in Parliament – and which gradually increases the retirement age of magistrates and establishes that the pension cannot be higher than 70% of the last net salary received – is constitutional.
After taking the decision, the CCR must draft the decision and its reasoning. President Nicușor Dan cannot promulgate the law until all the documents from the CCR reach Cotroceni, including the reasons for the decision of the constitutional judges.
Until today, the CCR has not yet published the decision and the reasoning for the ruling on the constitutionality of the law.
“For the president to promulgate, the motivation must be to publish and transmit the documents,” sources in the Presidential Administration told HotNews since the end of last week.
CCR has not completed drafting the decision
“The decision pronounced by the Court is compulsorily communicated to the President of Romania in order to avoid the promulgation of a law declared unconstitutional, and in the event that the constitutionality of the criticized legal provisions has been established, so that the President can promulgate the law within 10 days from the date on which he was notified of the Court's decision”, according to the Court's procedures on the CCR website.
CCR sources told HotNews on Tuesday that the decision has not yet been drafted. After the drafting of the decision is completed, it will be published in the Official Gazette and from then on the president can promulgate it or send it back to Parliament.
According to HotNews sources in CCR, the decision will be published towards the end of this week.
In the absence of the transmission of the official decision, Nicușor Dan cannot, in practice, promulgate the law, even if it has been declared constitutional.
