Romania protesters not backing down after [corruption sentence

>About 500,000 demonstrators have rallied across Romania, despite the government revoking a controversial decree that fuelled their discontent.

>The left-wing government earlier scrapped the decree, which would have shielded many politicians from prosecution for corruption.

>But protesters remain dissatisfied about a revised version of the bill which will now be put to parliament.

>Some are calling for the government of PM Sorin Grindeanu to resign.

>Recent days have seen Romania's largest protests since communism fell in 1989.

>The decision to repeal the decree was confirmed at an emergency government meeting in the capital Bucharest on Sunday.

>But protesters expressed concerns about the government's plans to redraft the law and send it for debate in parliament, where it could be forced through.

>Huge crowds swelled in the capital's Victory Square for a sixth day in a row.

>"This government is organised from the high level to the low like a mafia, and we don't want something like this," one protester, Profira Popo, told the Associated Press news agency.

>The decree would have decriminalised abuse of power offences where sums of less than €44,000 (£38,000; $47,500) were involved.

>Critics saw it as an attempt by the government to let off many of its own officials caught in an anti-corruption drive.

>The government had argued that the changes were needed to reduce prison overcrowding and align certain laws with the constitution.

>One immediate beneficiary would have been Liviu Dragnea, who leads the governing Social Democratic Party and faces charges of defrauding the state of €24,000.

>The decree was originally passed on Tuesday and was due to come into effect on 10 February.

>The constitutional court has still to rule, later this week, on the legality of the original decree.

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