The USR lawmakers submitted to the Ombudsman several requests for referral to the Constitutional Court on Emergency Ordinance No.

57/2019 on the Administrative Code, covering the article providing for the granting of special pensions to mayors, deputy mayors, presidents and vice-presidents of county councils. In requests signed by USR senators Florina Presada and Allen Coliban and USR Members Cristian Seidler, Stelian Ion, Silviu Dehelean and Emanuel Ungureanu is claimed that the CCR judges ruled in 2016 on two attempts to establish provisions similar to those contained in the Administrative code. These are decisions of the CCR No 10/2009. No 22/2016 and No 22/2016. No 581/2016 by which the CCR judges found that 'the old-age allowance governed by the law under consideration is a pecunation benefit to which the Member State and whose legal nature is uncertain' and that 'by granting this allowance only to local elected officials (mayors, deputy mayors, vice-presidents of county councils), the legislature violated Art. 16 paragraphs 1 and 2 shall apply mutatis (1) of the Constitution, establishing differentiated legal treatment within the the same legal subcategory'. In addition, the introduction of special pensions for some subcategories local elected officials 'shall set budgetary expenditure without establishing a source of financing', thereby in violation of The provisions of Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999. Whereas, in the course of the information provided for in Article 138 ( (5) of the Constitution.As the CCR noted, special pensions for some subcategories local elected officials are a privilege for persons who own or have held the status of mayor, deputy mayor, president and vice-president of county council, and "these privileges have no logical and with the activity or constraints that the titular person has had those categories of elective public functions'. In the first referral filed with the CCR, the Ombudsman did not made any mention of the special pensions of local elected officials, but only to adoption of the Administrative Code by emergency ordinance. The CCR's decisions in 2016 on special pensions of local elected officials cannot, however, be ignored and The Ombudsman must protect the Romanians, not the local barons.