500 Romanian judges and prosecutors protest against 'the captured judiciary'

Since Laura Codruța Kovesi left Romania, where she had succeeded in prosecuting and convicting innumerable famous and powerful men and women, things went back to normal - now evidence of widespread corruption in the judiciary has come out. 

The Romanian judiciary in the 90s and early and mid 00s was a byword for corruption and it seems old habits die hard. I remind you that the courts annulled the first round of the presidential election which prevented Calin Georgescu being President and upheld the disqualification of a number of presidential candidates in the eventual election, one for having "a discourse incompatible with Romania's membership of the European Union".