Elderly peasant women roam the dripping streets of Chisinau.
In the morning, white minibuses picked them up all over Moldova.
Scarf on the head, flowers in hand, they play the mourning of a woman they claim dead: the current president of Moldova, the pro-European, and very much alive, Maia Sandu.
To this morbid simulacrum are also joined men, more or less young and vindictive.
Some came with bottles of liquor;
some are already drunk.
In addition to the mortuary accessories, there are banners and placards distributed by the organizers of the event.
Slogans are repeated.
The themes are clear: Sandu betrayed his promises.
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