Chief anti-corruption prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi delivers a speech during a press conference in Bucharest, Romania, February 14, 2018. Picture taken February 14, 2018. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea via REUTERS
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Thousands of people rallied in freezing weather across Romania on Sunday, protesting a government call to sack the country's chief anti-corruption prosecutor and demanding the resignation of the justice minister.
On Thursday, the minister, Tudorel Toader had called for the president to dismiss the prosecutor, Laura Codruta Kovesi for "excess of authority", a move that would disrupt a crackdown on corruption in one of the European Union's most graft-prone members.
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