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David, from my still-visionary Peace Corps perspective, what you're describing looks like the usual political campaign, but this time the country is looking at it in terms of the practical, life-and-death terms of Covid lockdowns and vaccines. Not a new situation for the Moldovans, but perhaps another case-based opportunity for voters to confront the differences between the Eastern and Western styles of government struggling for dominance.

Civics lessons: how law can be manipulated to gain political ends. How corruption can be hidden or brought to light. Corruption around the availability of vaccines might be hard to hide. Hypocritical parliamentary maneuvers might be more evident. Voters are learning.

Nevertheless, the overall dilemmas of lockdowns and virus transmission on public transportation are heart-rending. Perhaps this will be the year that "curent" phobia is finally overcome on rutiere: (opening those windows and roof hatches could possibly save lives.)

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