Acting prime minister
Vitalie Pîrlog
Acting term ended- Term duration
- 11 days
- PM affiliation
- Affiliation unresolved
The catalogue assigns PCRM, but the biography states no declared party affiliation. Classification needs reconciliation.
- Born
- 28 July 1974, Nisporeni
- Previous office
- Minister of Justice (20 September 2006 - 25 September 2009)
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 party affiliation in 2009 was not established; it is shown here following encyclopedic sources.
- President
- Vladimir Voronin
- Political backing
- Outgoing Communist (PCRM) cabinet in transition
- How the mandate began
- Named acting prime minister by President Voronin's decree of 10 September 2009, effective 14 September, after Zinaida Greceanîi's resignation. Confirmed by UNIAN (11 September 2009) and SeeNews (10 September 2009).
- How it ended
- The interim ended on 25 September 2009, when Parliament invested the Filat government (53 votes). (53 votes confirmed by imedia, 25 September 2009).
Events
- 2009: on 10 September Voronin signed the decree making Pîrlog acting prime minister, effective 14 September.
- 2009: on 25 September the interim ended with Parliament's investiture of the Filat government; the same day his term as justice minister also ended.
Education
International law at the Free International University of Moldova (1992-1997); doctorate in law (2013).
Background
Party: No declared party affiliation
Vitalie Pîrlog was born in 1974 in Nisporeni and studied international law at the Free International University of Moldova. He began as a legal consultant, then served as principal consultant in the Office of the President (1997-2001).
From 2001 he worked at the Ministry of Justice, heading the department for international relations and European integration and representing the government before the European Court of Human Rights. He sat on Council of Europe bodies. From 20 September 2006 he was minister of justice, a post he kept in the Greceanîi governments.
In September 2009, after Zinaida Greceanîi announced her resignation, he was named acting prime minister for eleven days, until the Filat government was invested. It was a transitional interim between Communist rule and the Alliance for European Integration; the sources consulted do not mention any major decisions taken in that interval.
After office
He led the NGO Alliance for Justice and Human Rights (2009-2017), was elected to INTERPOL's Commission for the Control of Files in 2016 and chaired it (March 2017 - March 2022), and was director of Moldova's SIS intelligence service (December 2017 - February 2018). In June 2025 he was detained in the UAE at France's request in an INTERPOL-related corruption case; the allegations are unproven and, per his lawyer, he denies them.