People poured in the thousands Wednesday afternoon to Bucharest's Victoriei Square, before the Palace of Government, to protest the Executive headed by Sorin Grindeanu having pushed through on Tuesday evening an emergency ordinance amending criminal law.
According to spokesman of the Bucharest Traffic Police Ovidiu Munteanu the crowd keeps rising; at 19:30 hrs an estimated 40,000 people had gathered before the Government offices. Other major cities including Iasi (over 4,000), Cluj (over 10,000), Sibiu (over 7,000) and Timisoara (over 6,000) drummed up on social media support for the nationwide protest sparked Tuesday night against the law which would decriminalize abuse of office.
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