Editorialist Petru Bogatu considers that a change occurred after the April 7 events, even if not fully as expected. He made such a statement in the talk show “Pahomi” produced by Realitatea TV channel, IPN reports.

“If we compare current things with the then situation, now Moldova is like a sick person who does not have the necessary medicines and the appropriate doctor, but at least knows what it needs. Then this sick person didn’t know what he needed. It was forgotten that the oligarchic system of which we cannot get rid now was shaped in that period,” said Bogatu.

He also said that the installation of an iron curtain on the Prut started then. “For the first time in Moldova’s history, an ambassador was driven away, that of Romania. The relations with Romania worsened significantly. In general, the change occurred. If those protests hadn’t been mounted, we would have lived now in a kind of Kyrgyzstan. We wouldn’t have made statements on TV channels,” he stated.

Petru Bogatu considers that Moldova goes through a kind of purgatory. “The fact that Moldova faces serious problems and is affected by corruption shows that our country goes through purgatory, as Romania went through it before the serious changes,” said the editorialist.

Writer Vasile Ernu believes no important change occurred, despite the expectations. “A government was replaced by another. In the Communist period, at least the TV channels weren’t closed. The rulers do not understand that there are now more modern methods of dealing with the inconvenient media outlets. The problem is that the current system is more perfidious. The then system allowed those from the bottom to get something too, but the current system allows nothing to get to others,” he stated.