Florin Jianu wrote on Facebook that resigning was "the ethical thing to do" for the sake of his child.
"How am I going to look him in the eye and what am I going to tell him over the years?" he wrote.
Tuesday`s government decree, along with a draft bill granting prison pardons, has been criticized as the biggest retreat on anti-corruption reforms since the country joined the European Union in 2007.
Romanian minister resigns after anti-graft protests
02 February 2017
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Romania`s business and trade minister resigned on Thursday over a government decree decriminalizing a number of graft offences and which brought more than 250,000 Romanians out in protest.
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