Romania's president said Thursday he
would ask judges to declare unconstitutional a government decree that dilutes
what qualifies as corruption, after hundreds of thousands protested against the
measure.
President Klaus Iohannis said
Thursday that he would take the emergency decree to the Constitutional Court,
which is the last legal resort to stop the law.
The government passed an emergency
ordinance early Wednesday to decriminalize cases of official misconduct if the
funds involved are less than 200,000 lei ($47,800).
Huge protests erupted in the capital
and spread to cities around Romania in the past two evenings. Interior Minister
Carmen Dan said 200,000 took to the streets in Bucharest and in dozens other
towns across the country late Wednesday, in one of the biggest protests since
communism ended in the country in 1989.
Eight people were injured and four of
those, two riot police and and two demonstrators, were hospitalized with minor
injuries during clashes Wednesday. Twenty people were detained after some
protesters threw firecrackers, stones and smoke bombs.
Iohannis criticized the interior
ministry, which is in charge of police, for failing to contain
"instigators." He asked Dan to send him a report about the way the protest
was policed.
Demonstrators say the measure will
help government allies and other officials facing corruption charges and will
encourage public officials to steal on the job.
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