Further Protests in Romania After PM’s Shock Resignation

He said it was right for top officials to take responsibility over the fire, which sparked a stampede as panicked revellers desperately tried to get out, leaving almost 200 people injured.

Thousands of Romanians have taken to the streets of the capital for a second night to call for end to corruption despite the resignation of the country’s prime minister.

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“I have an important message to make for you: I saw you, I heard you, your demands matter to me”, Iohannis said. The death toll stands at 32, with about 130 more hospitalized, dozens of them in serious or critical condition.

Wait: how could a fire at a club lead to the fall of a federal government.

Iohannis said that if fire regulations had been respected, “nobody would have died”, calling it a shame that so many had to die before the government caved in to the pressure.

Thousands demonstrated this week demanding early elections and better governance.

“I believe in a clean Romania, a dignified Romania, where citizens are respected”, said Alexandru Ispas, a 23-year-old history student. Scheduled parliamentary elections are not due until December 2016.

Klaus Iohannis also has the option to name a Prime Minister from the liberal party that would form a minority Government, the first name at hand being former justice minister Catalin Predoiu, while another option is to name a politically independent person as Prime Minister to form a technocrat cabinet that would prepare for the parliamentary elections next year.

Prosecutors also suspect Ponta of conflict of interest, but that probe was stymied when parliament – where his Social Democrat party holds a comfortable majority – refused to lift his immunity from prosecution.

The protesters also criticized the powerful Romanian Orthodox Church, accusing it of failing to address an outpouring of national grief. Cristian Popescu Piedonet the mayor of the district where the night club was located has stepped down, as too has the Ponta’s minister of the interior.