Prime Minister no. 7
Zinaida Greceanîi
Term ended- Cumulative time in office
- 532 days
- PM affiliation
- Party of Communists
- Born
- 7 February 1956, Bogașiovskoe, regiunea Tomsk, RSFS Rusă (URSS)
- Previous office
- First deputy prime minister (from October 2005); finance minister (2002-2005)
Cabinets
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.
- End of the mandate: 14 September 2009 (when the acting appointment took effect, per press); other sources say 17 September, and the cabinet formally ended on 25 September. The 10 June 2009 vote (59 votes) comes from a single source.
- President
- Vladimir Voronin
- Political backing
- PCRM
- How the mandate began
- Presidential nomination decree of 21 March 2008; confidence vote on 31 March 2008: 56 Communist votes out of 101.
- How it ended
- The government resigned on 4 May 2009 under the constitutional procedure after the 5 April 2009 election and continued in an interim capacity until the new cabinet was invested on 10 June 2009.
- President
- Vladimir Voronin
- Political backing
- PCRM (60 seats after the April 2009 election)
- How the mandate began
- Renominated by decree on 3 June 2009; on 10 June 2009 Parliament approved the government with 59 votes of Communist deputies out of 101 (Mediafax, 10 June 2009).
- How it ended
- On 9 September 2009 she announced her resignation, saying she could not hold the posts of prime minister and MP at once; she stopped leading the cabinet on 14 September, when Vitalie Pîrlog took over as acting PM. The cabinet is recorded as dissolved on 25 September 2009, when the Filat government was invested. Voronin's decree of 10 September 2009 named Pîrlog acting prime minister effective 14 September, because Greceanîi, elected an MP, could no longer exercise the office (UNIAN, 11 September 2009; SeeNews, 10 September 2009).
Events
- 2008: the government was invested on 31 March and the programme "Progress and Integration" was approved.
- 2008: on 24 September the Transport Agency was created by reorganising the Ministry of Transport and Road Management and the State Civil Aviation Administration.
- 2009: the 5 April election gave the PCRM 49.48% and 60 seats, one short of the 61 needed to elect a president.
- 2009: on 7 April violent protests broke out in Chișinău; Greceanîi warned that police would use all means to defend constitutional order.
- 2009: on 4 May the government resigned procedurally and on 10 June it was re-invested with 59 votes.
- 2009: on 20 May and 3 June Parliament failed to elect a president (60 votes, one short); on 15 June Voronin dissolved Parliament.
- 2009: on 9 September she announced her resignation, and on 14 September the post passed to acting PM Vitalie Pîrlog.
Cabinet composition
Cabinet composition: Greceanîi I Cabinet 21 members
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Zinaida Greceanîi | Prim-ministru |
| Igor Dodon | Prim-viceprim-ministru, ministru al economiei și comerțului |
| Victor Stepaniuc | Viceprim-ministru |
| Andrei Stratan | Viceprim-ministru, ministru al afacerilor externe și integrării europene |
| Mariana Durleșteanu | Ministru al finanțelor |
| Anatolie Gorodenco | Ministru al agriculturii și industriei alimentare |
| Vasile Ursu | Ministru al transporturilor și gospodăriei drumurilor |
| Vladimir Baldovici | Ministru al construcțiilor și dezvoltării teritoriului |
| Violeta Ivanov | Ministru al ecologiei și resurselor naturale |
| Larisa Șavga | Ministru al educației și tineretului |
| Larisa Catrinici | Ministru al sănătății |
| Galina Balmoș | Ministru al protecției sociale, familiei și copilului |
| Artur Cozma | Ministru al culturii și turismului |
| Vitalie Pîrlog | Ministru al justiției |
| Valentin Mejinschi | Ministru al afacerilor interne |
| Vitalie Vrabie | Ministru al apărării |
| Pavel Buceațchi | Ministru al dezvoltării informaționale |
| Vasilii Șova | Ministru al reintegrării |
| Valentin Guznac | Ministru al administrației publice locale |
| Mihail Formuzal | 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).
Cabinet composition: Greceanîi II Cabinet 10 members
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Vitalie Pîrlog | Prim-ministru interimar, ministru al justiției |
| Iurie Roșca | Viceprim-ministru |
| Andrei Stratan | Viceprim-ministru, ministru al afacerilor externe și integrării europene |
| Anatolie Gorodenco | Ministru al agriculturii și industriei alimentare |
| Larisa Șavga | Ministru al educației și tineretului |
| Larisa Catrinici | Ministru al sănătății |
| Gheorghe Papuc | Ministru al afacerilor interne |
| Vitalie Vrabie | Ministru al apărării |
| Mihail Formuzal | 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
Chișinău Financial and Banking College and Moldova State University (economics and finance).
Background
Party: Party of Communists (PCRM); from 2011 Party of Socialists (PSRM)
Zinaida Greceanîi was born in 1956 in the Tomsk region, where her parents, natives of Cotiujeni in Briceni district, had been deported. The family later returned to Moldova, and she graduated from the Financial and Banking College and Moldova State University, specialising in economics and finance.
She worked at the Briceni financial department and from 1994 at the Ministry of Finance, where she headed the Budget Department. She was finance minister from 2002 to 2005 and, from October 2005, first deputy prime minister in the Tarlev government. She became the first woman to serve as prime minister of Moldova.
Her tenure was dominated by the global economic crisis and the April 2009 election, followed by the violent protests of 7 April. She warned publicly that police would defend constitutional order by every means, a statement often recalled in later debates. Her government stayed in office until September 2009.
After office
She stayed on as an MP, left the PCRM in 2011 and joined the PSRM; she lost the 2015 Chișinău mayoral run-off, chaired the PSRM (December 2016 - December 2020) and was Speaker of Parliament (8 June 2019 - 26 July 2021).