Mood for Change: Demonstrators Demand Clean Romania

A nightclub fire in Bucharest that killed at least 44 people became the tipping point for many Romanians who have long been frustrated with corruption among leaders. All the major parties in Romania's Parliament have been touched by the corruption probes and convictions - from the ruling Social Democratic Party and its junior partner, the National Union for the Progress of Romania to the opposition Liberal Party - leading to a belief that politicians enter politics to enrich themselves. "It is so fluid at the moment, the old guard is so entrenched and the protesters are not a single group who know what they want the future to look like other than that they want the current system gone," Daniel Brett, a Romania expert and associated professor at the Open University said in an interview with The Associated Press.