The pandemic happened - it killed all the populus energy. The attention of the people was taken away from Justice and the important stuff, to all sort of pandemic-born populist characters, conspiracy theories, and paper nationalism, which was exploited very well by the Kremlin. And while everyone was busy bitching about masks and vaccines, the maggots won, reversing everything we achieved in the past 2 decades. The economy is in this current state because the maggot that was in control in 2016, was at the prison door for corruption, which meant he couldn't become prime minister, and purged his way through prime ministers, trying to find the perfect puppet that would let him rule from the shadows, while trying to change the law to decriminalize the thing he was condemned for. He went to jail in the end, but in the process, he removed Kovesi and set in motion the end of the Anti-Corruption Directorate, and because a bunch of better-prepared people were purged, the party fell in the hands the people who before that used to serve them tea and wipe their butt - a bunch of imbeciles, who wouldn't be able to budget their own grocery bill, let alone a nation during the pandemic. The inflation was left to run out of control after the pandemic, because the ruling party was worried that any measure designed to reduce it would affect their chances to win the next elections, so for 2 years they did nothing, and ran things on borrowed time and money.