These days, one of the most complicated regimes that dominated Moldova is adrift. We do not know whether it will leave or will come back, but it is certain that the way Moldova has been governed so far is no longer tolerated, and the government, whatever it may be, can not return to those forms of administration that have been used in recent years: vertical administration, forced party membership, forced promotion of the political cult in public institutions. Everything that will happen from now on in Moldova will emerge from the lessons learned during this period.

Even if he seems to embody the universal evil, Vlad Plahotniuc has some “merits” to be mentioned here. He was the most prolific catalyst of the corrupt. He was the man who managed to develop corruptibility trends in all institutions, at all levels. He found them, encouraged them, gathered them, brought them to the front. Now we know each and every one of the corrupt, and this work must be appreciated.

If we have found out how a justice reform can be compromised, seeing how judges can be dismissed, seeing how judges can be appointed even though the passed the tests with very small marks, seeing how judges can go together with prosecutors to hunting parties along with politicians, seeing a chief of court and a chief of prosecutor’s office participating in the killing of a hunter and concealing the deed, seeing businessmen succumb their business where they worked all their lives, observing that the most important sectors and buildings in Chisinau are fraudulently privatized, seeing that the most important positions in the state are held by incompetent professionals but politically obedient, seeing that politically affiliated mayors receive preferential financial support, on the basis of party membership, seeing that the police end up guarding only a political group and its leader and ignoring the security needs of ordinary citizens or even attacking others in the interest of the group, finding out that the most open databases of public data have been destroyed and limited in the interests of an oligarch, seeing that the prime minister promotes his own business and group to the detriment of the public interest, seeing that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs organizes international meetings for the head of the party, understanding that the Ministry of Culture offers grants to NGOs affiliated to the party, seeing that the money for good roads is spent on poor paths, seeing how Russia’s “Perviy Kanal” transmits nationally programs with aggressive attitudes towards Moldova, the EU, Ukraine while the Broadcasting Council says that the fight with Russian propaganda is a success, seeing that public services do not accept card payments and favor cash payers, seeing names in the political group winning the majority of public tenders, finding out that higher priced and lower quality medicines are administered to children, seeing that the institutions that have to fight the large corruption and confiscate their illicit assets actually cover them, seeking to find out any information about corruption and being told to send a letter with questions that will never be answered, if all of this happens to us and much more, we must all know that they are all under the control of a single person, called Vlad Plahotniuc.

Plahotniuc is, undoubtedly, the best expert on corruptibility, and if Moldova ever succeeds in lightening up, becoming transparent and uncorrupted, plahotniucs will always be needed for tests. It’s easy to be a person of integrity in good conditions, with sufficient salaries and functional institutions, but it is extremely complicated to do this when institutions are politically subordinated or controlled by people with non-statutory economic and financial interests. For this, we must always keep this case study in mind and admit the “expert” only to the anthologies, to prevent the risks.