Renato Usatîi (born 4 November 1978) is a Moldovan politician and businessman serving as President of Our Party since 8 February 2015.

The party was excluded from the race three days before the election, a decision declared arbitrary by the European Court of Human Rights.

[5] Usatîi intended to participate in the 2016 Moldovan presidential election but was unable to after a decision of the Constitutional Court of Moldova changed the minimum age required for someone to serve as president from 35 to 40.

Renato Usatîi was born on 4 November 1978 in Fălești, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Republic of Moldova) to two English language teachers.

Later, between 2002 and 2004 he worked as a Lead Engineer of the food production facility at the Calea Ferată din Moldova (English: Moldovan Railway).

[13] On 30 September, Usatîi announced that he was going to participate in the 2014 parliamentary election as a candidate on the electoral list of the political party "Patria".

[21] In September 2016, Usatîi left the country for Russia and remained there until the 2019 Moldovan constitutional crisis and the inauguration of the Sandu Cabinet.

In September 2015, Usatîi, along with Igor Dodon, set up a tent encampment in front of the Parliament building calling it „Victory City”.

[24] An opinion poll conducted on behalf of the International Republican Institute showed Usatîi receiving 20% of the votes and coming in first in the first round.

[25] As a result of a decision of the Constitutional Court of Moldova from March 2016, the minimum age required for someone to serve as president was changed from 35 to 40.

[30] During a press conference, he asked people to record short videos in which they would express their views on his potential candidacy and send them to him before 27 August 2020.

[31] The next day, Usatîi organized an open air press conference during which he officially announced his candidacy for the 2020 elections.

[32] Usatîi's campaign emphasized several priorities, including organizing snap parliamentary elections, eradicating corruption by forming a Moldovan equivalent of Mossad, abolishing district authorities and intensifying economic cooperation with Romania and Ukraine.

[33] He also heavily criticized incumbent president Igor Dodon, accusing him of spending a week in a luxury resort financed by taxpayer money,[34] fabricating opinion polls,[35] illegally spying on his campaign[36] and attempting to rig the election by paying Moldovan citizens from Transnistria to vote for him.

[38] After the Constitutional Court of Moldova declared the emergency state unconstitutional on 28 April 2021, later that day Maia Sandu signed the decree of dissolution of the Parliament and the snap elections on July 11, 2021.

The political force he leads, Our Party, officially declares foreign policy neutrality, consisting in the idea of not joining the European or Customs Unions.

There is also a more significant argument: the oppositionist has Russian citizenship, which has already given reason to the Moldovan side to refuse his extradition, after the initiation of numerous criminal cases in his home country.

After he was suspected in the Russian Federation of having ties with the Landromat case defendant Boris Usherovich, he hastily moved to Germany.

[51] A native of Falesti and a “Russian guest worker”, millionaire Renato Usatîi became the opening of the Moldovan political season 2014.

He has Rogozin's people in his party, he is anti-EU, he criticizes the pro-European government, he has business in Moscow, and he has connections in the FSB.