Bucharest: Romania’s Lower House of parliament yesterday overwhelmingly endorsed a government order to scrap a graft decree that triggered mass street protests, international condemnation and a consequent U-turn by the month-old cabinet.
The cabinet of Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu enraged people when it quietly approved on January 31 a decree that would have decriminalised several corruption offences, prompting the largest display of anger since the 1989 fall of communism.
The Lower House, as expected, backed the order comprehensively by 291 votes to none against with three abstentions.
The Upper House of parliament, the senate, approved the withdrawal of the decree last Tuesday after all ruling party leaders agreed to scrap the decree as quickly as
possible.
