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Zinaida Greceanîi
Зинаи́да Греча́ная
8th Prime Minister of Moldova
In office
31 March 2008 – 14 September 2009
PresidentVladimir Voronin
Mihai Ghimpu (Acting)
DeputyIgor Dodon
Preceded byVasile Tarlev
Succeeded byVitalie Pîrlog (Acting)
Personal details
Born (1956-02-07) 7 February 1956 (age 68)
Tomsk Oblast, Soviet Union
(now Russia)
Political partyCommunist Party (Before 2011)
Socialist Party (2011–present)
SpouseAlexei Greceanîi
Children2
Alma materMoldova State University

Zinaida Greceanîi (born 7 February 1956;[1] Russian: Зинаида Петровна Гречаная, romanized: Zinaida Petrovna Grechanaya) is a Moldovan politician who was the Prime Minister of Moldova from 31 March 2008[1][2] to 14 September 2009. She is the leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) and was previously a member of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM).[3] She was Moldova's first female Prime Minister[2] and was the second female Communist head of government in Europe, the first having been Premier Milka Planinc of Yugoslavia.[4]

Background

Greceanîi was born at Tomsk Oblast in Siberia in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. Her parents, Marioara Ursu (1918–1993) and Petrea Bujor (1906–1996), were deported in 1951 from Cotiujeni in the north of Moldova during the Operation North because they were Jehovah's Witnesses. Her brother died during the deportation. Zinaida Greceanîi and her parents came back to Cotiujeni only in 1968. She was baptised as Orthodox by her grandmother on mother's side.

She graduated from the Financial and Economic College in the capital Chișinău and the State University of Moldova.[1]

Greceanîi is married to Alexei Greceanîi and has two children.[1]

Career

She was Deputy Minister of Finances from 2000 to 2001 and First Deputy Minister of Finances from 2001 to 2002. President Vladimir Voronin appointed her as Interim Minister of Finances on 8 February 2002 and then appointed her as Minister of Finances on 26 February 2002 as the only woman in the cabinet. After serving as Finance Minister for more than three years, she was appointed by Voronin as First Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova on 10 October 2005.[1] In the summer, she arrived first in the 2005 Chișinău election, but they were declared invalid because of the low turnout.

According to the polls made in 2019 related to the most popular politicians of the Republic of Moldova, Zinaida Greceanii is ranked at the second position of the top of politicians which enjoyed the highest trust from the Moldovans citizens side[5], and according to some other polls she was given the sixth [6]and at the eighth rank accordingly[7]

Prime minister

Greceanîi with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in June 2008.
Main articles: Prime Minister of Moldova, Zinaida Greceanîi Cabinet (First), and Zinaida Greceanîi Cabinet (Second)

Following the resignation of Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev on 19 March 2008, President Vladimir Voronin nominated Greceanîi as Prime Minister.[3] The Cabinet of Zinaida Greceanîi was approved by Parliament on 31 March; it received 56 votes in favor out of the 101 members of Parliament. According to Greceanîi, the immediate focus of her Cabinet would on "freedom of the media, an active dialogue with civil society and an independent judiciary". She increased the number of women ministers from 2 to 5 (25 per cent) and followed up on laws of gender equality.[8]

Greceanii resigned on 9 September 2009, saying she was unable to simultaneously hold the posts of prime minister and member of parliament at the same time. On 10 September 2009, Moldova’s President Vladimir Voronin signed a decree appointing Justice Minister Vitalie Pîrlog as acting Prime Minister from 14 September until a new government was formed.

Moldovan presidential election, May–June 2009

Main article: Moldovan presidential election, May–June 2009

Her party won the April 2009 election with 49.48% of the vote and she won one of the 60 seats of the PCRM in the Moldovan Parliament. She was twice an unsuccessful candidate of the PCRM for the post of the President of Moldova, on 20 May and 3 June 2009, lacking only one vote to obtain the required 3/5 (61) of the votes. In both rounds, alternative male candidates were also nominated by the PCRM and obtained 0 votes and Greceanîi all 60 Communist party votes.[9]

New elections were held and after the July 2009 parliamentary election, Greceanîi again won a seat in the Moldovan Parliament, but the PCRM only got 48 seats and the opposition to the Communist Party, the Alliance for European Integration, agreed to create a governing coalition.[10]

Subsequent career

She contested the mayoralty of Chișinău at the 2015 local elections, where she progressed to a run-off against incumbent Dorin Chirtoacă.[11] Ultimately she was unsuccessful, losing to Chirtoacă 46.56% to 53.46% on June 28.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Page on Greceanii at government website Archived 7 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ a b "Moldova's Parliament approves new government" Archived 5 December 2012 at archive.today, Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), 31 March 2008.
  3. ^ a b "Moldova's Leader Nominates First Female Prime Minister"[permanent dead link], Associated Press (The Moscow Times), 24 March 2008.
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 30 April 2008. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link); Skard, Torild (2014) "Zinaida Greceanîi" in Women of power - half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide, Bristol, Policy Press, ISBN 978-1-44731-578-0, pp. 326-30, 358-60
  5. ^ "Sondaj BOP: Cei mai apreciați politicieni din Republica Moldova", UNIMEDIA, retrieved 18 February 2019
  6. ^ "Sondaj: Cine sunt politicienii în care moldovenii au cea mai mare încredere", stiri.md, retrieved 18 February 2019
  7. ^ "Partidele care ar ajunge in legislativ daca duminica viitoare ar avea loc alegeri parlamentare. Top trei politicieni care se bucura de cea mai mare incredere. Sondaj iData", protv.md, retrieved 18 February 2019
  8. ^ Skard, Torild (2014), p. 359
  9. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8059039.stm; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8071251.stm Archived 10 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine; Inter-Parliamentary Union, IPU: "Republic of Moldova, Parliament", www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2215_E.htm
  10. ^ IPU
  11. ^ http://www.rferl.org/content/moldova-chisinau-mayor-election-chirtoaca/27072499.html Archived 15 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine Pro-Europe, Pro-Russia Parties Split Vote In Moldova
  12. ^ http://www.rferl.org/content/moldova-election-chisinau-mayor-eu-russia/27099585.html Archived 30 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine Pro-EU Incumbent Declared Winner In Moldova Mayoral Runoff
Political offices
Preceded by Prime Minister of Moldova
2008–2009 		Succeeded by
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