Romania lawmakers vote for scrapping controversial corruption bill

‘Romania’s lower house of parliament has overwhelmingly approved a government order to withdraw a graft bill which decriminalizes several corruption offenses.
On Tuesday, the lower house endorsed the order with no votes against it and three abstentions.
The upper house of parliament, the senate, approved the withdrawal of the decree last week after it triggered international condemnation and mass protests unprecedented since the fall of communism in 1989.’
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