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Prime Minister no. 12
Pavel Filip
Term ended- Term duration
- 1235 days · Transfer of power
- PM affiliation
- Democratic Party
- Born
- 10 April 1966, Pănășești, raionul Strășeni
- Previous office
- Minister of Information Technology and Communications (2011–2016)
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.
- The timeline uses 8 June 2019 for the legal end of Filip’s term and the start of Sandu’s term. The effective withdrawal announced on 14 June, reported by the press and HCC 16/2019, is retained as an event in the transfer of power, not as the legal end of the term.
- According to alegeri.md, the government was in caretaker mode from 9 March 2019 (after the February elections), and the mandate formally ended on 8 June 2019, when the Sandu cabinet was invested.
Legal succession on 8 June 2019: the Filip government’s term ends on the day the Sandu government was invested, with no gap between terms (0 days). The effective transfer of power was nevertheless blocked for six days, from 8 to 14 June 2019. On 14 June Filip announced his withdrawal from government and the transfer of power; on 15 June the Constitutional Court annulled its acts of 7–9 June. The six days describe the institutional transition, not overlapping legal terms.
Sources for the end of the term: RFE/RL: Moldova's Democratic Party government resigns (14 iunie 2019) · Guvernul Pavel Filip (alegeri.md)
- President
- Nicolae Timofti (până în decembrie 2016); Igor Dodon (din decembrie 2016)
- Political backing
- PDM and a group of 14 former Communist MPs
- How the mandate began
- Invested by Parliament on 20 January 2016 with 57 of 101 votes, in a session contested by the opposition and accompanied by protests; the cabinet was sworn in before President Timofti near midnight.
- How it ended
- Parliament elected the Sandu government on 8 June 2019; the Constitutional Court declared it unconstitutional on 9 June, suspended Dodon and named Filip interim president. On 14 June 2019 the PDM announced its withdrawal from power and Filip announced the cabinet's resignation ('we leave with a clear conscience'), saying that leaving would not undo the Court's decisions. On 15 June the Constitutional Court annulled its 7-9 June rulings and the Sandu government was reinstated.
Events
- 20 January 2016: invested with 57 votes after Ion Păduraru withdrew; protests continue after the investiture.
- December 2016: Defence Minister Anatol Șalaru is dismissed by decree of President Igor Dodon.
- July 2017: the government reform reduces the number of ministries from 16 to 9.
- November 2017 – March 2018: the 'Prima Casă' housing-loan programme is launched and becomes operational.
- 1 January 2018: Moldova IT Park is established.
- 29 March 2018: the unified 112 emergency service begins operating.
- 2018: the 'Drumuri bune pentru Moldova' road programme allocates 972 million lei to rural roads.
- June 2019: constitutional crisis; from 9 June Filip is interim president by Constitutional Court decision (end date unconfirmed: the Court annulled its 7-9 June rulings on 15 June), and on 14 June he announces the government's resignation.
Cabinet composition
Cabinet composition: Filip Cabinet 21 members
| Name | Position | Party |
|---|---|---|
| Pavel Filip | Prim-ministru | PDM |
| Gheorghe Brega | Viceprim-ministru pentru probleme sociale | PL |
| Gheorghe Bălan | Viceprim-ministru pentru reintegrare | |
| Octavian Calmîc | Viceprim-ministru, ministru al economiei | PDM |
| Andrei Galbur | Viceprim-ministru, ministru al afacerilor externe și integrării europene | |
| Octavian Armașu | Ministru al finanțelor | |
| Vladimir Cebotari | Ministru al justiției | PDM |
| Alexandru Jizdan | Ministru al afacerilor interne | |
| Anatol Șalaru | Ministru al apărării | PL |
| Vasile Bîtca | Ministru al dezvoltării regionale și construcțiilor | PDM |
| Eduard Grama | Ministru al agriculturii și industriei alimentare | |
| Iurie Chirinciuc | Ministru al transporturilor și infrastructurii drumurilor | PL |
| Valeriu Munteanu | Ministru al mediului | PL |
| Corina Fusu | Ministru al educației | PL |
| Monica Babuc | Ministru al culturii | PDM |
| Stela Grigoraș | Ministru al muncii, protecției sociale și familiei | |
| Ruxanda Glavan | Ministru al sănătății | PDM |
| Victor Zubcu | Ministru al tineretului și sportului | PDM |
| Vasile Botnari | Ministru al tehnologiei informației și comunicațiilor | PDM |
| Irina Vlah | Guvernator al Găgăuziei | |
| Gheorghe Duca | Președinte al Academiei de Științe a Moldovei |
Initial composition; later changes may be missing. Position titles are given in Romanian, as in the source. Source: alegeri.md (secondary source).
Education
Mechanical engineer (Polytechnic Institute of Chișinău, 1983–1990) with a bachelor's in international management from the International Management Institute (1991–1996).
Background
Party: Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM), later the European Social Democratic Party
Pavel Filip was born in 1966 in Pănășești. A mechanical engineer by training, he also studied international management. He joined the PDM in 2010, briefly sat in Parliament, and from January 2011 was Minister of Information Technology and Communications in the Filat, Leancă, Gaburici and Streleț cabinets.
He was nominated for prime minister in January 2016, after President Timofti rejected Vlad Plahotniuc's candidacy and Ion Păduraru withdrew. Invested on 20 January 2016, he led the government for almost three and a half years, backed by the PDM and a group of former Communists.
His mandate was marked by protests, the 2017 government reform that cut the number of ministries from 16 to 9, programmes such as 'Prima Casă' and 'Drumuri bune pentru Moldova', and the June 2019 political crisis, during which the Constitutional Court briefly named him acting president.
After office
He was elected PDM chairman on 7 September 2019 and held the post until 30 October 2021. He was an MP from 2019 to 2021.