{"id":32462,"date":"2017-02-10T01:52:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T01:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/justice-minister-florin-iordache-resigns-after\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T01:52:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T01:52:42","slug":"justice-minister-florin-iordache-resigns-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/justice-minister-florin-iordache-resigns-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice minister Florin Iordache resigns after protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Florin Iordache, co-architect of controversial corruption measure that set off rallies, resigns citing ‘public opinion’.}<\/p>\n

Romania’s justice minister has resigned after huge nationwide protests over government efforts to weaken anti-corruption laws through a decree.<\/p>\n

Florin Iordache’s resignation on Thursday came as rallies calling for the government to resign continued despite the Social Democratic-led leadership’s pledge to scrap the decree, which would have decriminalised some corruption offences.<\/p>\n

“I have decided to offer my resignation,” said Iordache, 56, a co-architect of the January emergency rule which critics say would have protected corrupt politicians from prosecution.<\/p>\n

He defended his record at the justice ministry saying he carried out “all necessary actions to remedy a series of sensitive problems”.<\/p>\n

“But despite that, public opinion did not consider it sufficient, and that’s why I have decided to submit my resignation.”<\/p>\n

Iordache said all of his “initiatives were legal and constitutional”.<\/p>\n

Against this turbulent backdrop, Sorin Grindeanu, Romania’s prime minister, survived a no-confidence vote on Wednesday despite the ongoing protests.<\/p>\n

Bowing to pressure, the government scrapped the ordinance on Sunday as up to 500,000 people protested across the country.<\/p>\n

The rallies were the largest protests since the fall of communist rule in 1989.<\/p>\n

In a related development on Thursday, Romania’s constitutional court said it would not rule on the decree.<\/p>\n

The decree was referred to the court by Victor Ciorbea, the national ombudsman, on February 3, two days before the Social Democrats withdrew it.<\/p>\n

“This decree does not exist anymore. It was scrapped [by the government],” said Valer Dorneanu, the court president.<\/p>\n

“We start from the truth that the emergency decree no longer exists.”<\/p>\n

The withdrawal must still be approved by parliament.<\/p>\n

Asked what would happen if parliament does not do so, Dorneanu said: “We don’t judge based on suppositions.”<\/p>\n

\"Anti-government<\/figure>\n

Source:Al Jazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{Florin Iordache, co-architect of controversial corruption measure that set off rallies, resigns citing ‘public opinion’.} Romania’s justice minister has resigned after huge nationwide protests over government efforts to weaken anti-corruption laws through a decree. Florin Iordache’s resignation on Thursday came as rallies calling for the government to resign continued despite the Social Democratic-led leadership’s pledge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[101],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-internationl","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32462"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32462"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}