Acting prime minister
Gheorghe Brega
Acting term ended- Term duration
- 82 days
- PM affiliation
- Liberal Party
- Born
- 25 September 1951, Drepcăuți, raionul Briceni
- Previous office
- Deputy PM for Social Affairs (from 30 July 2015); MP (2009–2015)
Cabinet
Not officially confirmed
The points below come from the press or encyclopedias and could not be checked against Parliament decisions, decrees or the Official Gazette.
- His deputy-prime-minister term ended on 30 May 2017, per press; no official act was consulted for this date.
- President
- Nicolae Timofti
- Political backing
- Former PLDM–PDM–PL coalition (dismissed government in caretaker mode)
- How the mandate began
- Named interim prime minister by decree of President Timofti on 30 October 2015, chosen from the four deputy PMs (Brega, Bride, Gherman, Osipov), the same day as the decree taking note of the Streleț government's resignation; interim until a new government was sworn in (official presedinte.md release; Antena 3). Timofti said the choice was his own.
- How it ended
- The interim period ended on 20 January 2016 when Parliament invested the Filip government.
Events
- 30 October 2015: President Timofti names him interim prime minister.
- 30 October 2015 – 20 January 2016: ministers of the dismissed government stay on only for routine administration.
- 20 January 2016: the interim period ends with the investiture of the Filip government.
Education
Graduated from Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Chișinău (1974).
Background
Party: Liberal Party (PL)
Gheorghe Brega was born in 1951 in Drepcăuți, Briceni district, and graduated in 1974 from the Chișinău medical university, now the Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy. He is a member of the Liberal Party.
He sat in Parliament from 2009 to 2015, during the years of the Alliance for European Integration governments. On 30 July 2015 he became deputy prime minister for social affairs in the Streleț cabinet.
After Parliament dismissed the Streleț government on 29 October 2015, President Timofti appointed Brega, one of the four deputy PMs, interim prime minister on 30 October. The caretaker cabinet stayed in office for almost three months, until the Filip government was invested on 20 January 2016. Brega's interim role was therefore a transitional stage rather than a mandate with its own programme.
After office
He remained Deputy PM for Social Affairs in the Filip government too (on the cabinet list submitted to Parliament on 20 January 2016, Moldpres). The Liberal Party left the coalition in late May 2017 (Adevărul); Wikipedia gives 30 May 2017 as the end of Brega's tenure, but the exact date is not confirmed by an official source. Later activity not verified.