The president of the Democratic Party (PDM) Pavel Filip, ex-Premier, said he is optimistic and considers that even if things went slower, Moldova follows yet an ascending path. According to him, the 28 years of independence are not a really sufficient period for a former Soviet republic to develop so that everyone was satisfied. Moreover, Moldova’s position in the Soviet Union wasn’t so simple, even compared with the Baltic States for which it was much easier to recover after that period in the USSR.

“Surely, we would like things to develop faster. Regrettably, we still suffer because of the imprints left by the former Soviet regime on us. Society remains divided,” Pavel Filip stated in a video interview for IPN News Agency.

The former Prime Minister noted that this division was from the very beginning somehow exploited very swiftly by politicians and these continue to use it. In the 1990s, Moldova’s independence was regained by the intellectual elites. At the same time, representatives of the Soviet nomenclature skillfully came to power immediately afterward and Moldova moved on slowly and remained the victim of the same management style.

According to Pavel Filip, disappointment followed later because everyone hoped that they will live better, but they didn’t. As a result, the Party of Communists returned to power, but people’s lives didn’t improve. Consequently, they moved to another extreme. Throughout this period, the politicians in the Republic of Moldova learned for themselves, but these phenomena led to the division of society.

“It was very easy to come before the people who lived with the nostalgia for the Soviet time and before other people who had a pro-West orientation and to put them the question: “What do you plead for?”. And then the people had to choose between white and black. But life has a lot of nuances. However, it’s easier to impose this chose on the people than to explain what real development is to them. The politicians became lazy and used this instrument. I think we continue to be hostage to this instrument nowadays,” stated the politician.

The interview “PDM president Pavel Filip’s view about the state of affairs in Moldovan society at the intersection of years” forms part of the series “Crossroads of years through the angle of the ideal of living better at home” that also involve President Igor Dodon and Prime Minister Ion Chicu and the leaders of the main parliamentary parties Andrei Năstase and Maia Sandu.