Hundreds of people staged another protest today in the Romanian capital to pressure the government into scrapping a proposed restructuring of the justice system that critics say would make it hard to punish high-level corruption.

Romania’s prime minister Victor Ponta quit in a surprise move that will lead to the formation of a new cabinet, after street protesters demanded cabinet resignations as the death toll from a weekend Bucharest nightclub fire climbed.

A Romanian opposition party today challenged the results of presidential elections, saying they were fraudulent.