Prime Minister no. 2
Andrei Sangheli
Term ended- Cumulative time in office
- 1668 days
- PM affiliation
- Democratic Agrarian Party
- Born
- 20 July 1944, Grinăuți-Moldova, raionul Ocnița, RSS Moldovenească
- Previous office
- First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry (1990–1992)
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.
- The 1992 and 1994 investiture decisions and the vote counts were not found in official acts; cabinet dates come from the press and encyclopedias.
- The boundary between the two cabinets: 5 April 1994 (here) or 31 March 1994 (alegeri.md); the end of the second: 24 or 25 January 1997. According to alegeri.md the government was in caretaker mode from 3 December 1996.
- President
- Mircea Snegur
- Political backing
- A 'conciliation' government envisaged by the Yeltsin–Snegur arrangement; no formal coalition verified.
- How the mandate began
- Designated prime minister by President Snegur on 1 July 1992; the cabinet's composition was confirmed by Parliament in Decision No. 1130 of 4 August 1992. The vote count could not be verified.
- How it ended
- Succeeded by the Sangheli II cabinet on 5 April 1994, after the February 1994 parliamentary elections and his reconfirmation in office.
- President
- Mircea Snegur (până la 15 ianuarie 1997), apoi Petru Lucinschi
- Political backing
- Backed by the Democratic Agrarian Party (winner in 1994); detailed parliamentary support not verified.
- How the mandate began
- Reconfirmed as prime minister on 5 April 1994, after the 27 February 1994 elections won by the PDAM. The vote count could not be verified.
- How it ended
- The cabinet resigned on 24 January 1997, shortly after Petru Lucinschi took office (15 January) and after Sangheli's defeat in the November 1996 presidential election, where he took 9.50% and fourth place.
Events
- 1 July 1992: designated prime minister by President Snegur.
- 21 July 1992: the Moscow ceasefire agreement on Transnistria is signed.
- 4 August 1992: Parliament confirms the cabinet's composition in Decision No. 1130.
- 1993: the national currency, the leu, replaces the Soviet rouble.
- 27 February 1994: parliamentary elections won by the PDAM; on 5 April 1994 Sangheli is reconfirmed as prime minister.
- 1994: the Constitution is adopted, in force from 27 August 1994.
- 23 December 1994: Parliament passes the Law on the Special Legal Status of Gagauzia.
- 17 November 1996: Sangheli runs for president and takes 9.50% of the vote.
- 24 January 1997: the cabinet resigns after President Lucinschi takes office.
Cabinet composition
Cabinet composition: Sangheli I Cabinet 24 members
| Name | Position | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Andrei Sangheli | Prim-ministru | 1 July 1992 |
| Nicolae Andronati | Prim-viceprim-ministru | 4 August 1992 |
| Mihai Coșcodan | Viceprim-ministru | 4 August 1992 |
| Valentin Cunev | Viceprim-ministru | 4 August 1992 |
| Nicolai Oleinic | Viceprim-ministru | 4 August 1992 |
| Sergiu Certan | Ministru al economiei | 28 July 1992 |
| Claudia Melnic | Ministru al finanțelor | 4 August 1992 |
| Vitalie Gorincioi | Ministru al agriculturii și alimentației | 23 July 1992 |
| Alexei Barbăneagră | Ministru al justiției | 23 July 1992 |
| Valentin Ciumac | Ministru al industriei | 1993 |
| Valeriu Cebotari | Ministru al arhitecturii și construcțiilor | 23 July 1992 |
| Ion Casian | Ministru al informaticii, informației și telecomunicațiilor | 29 July 1992 |
| Tudor Slănină | Ministru al comerțului și resurselor materiale | 23 July 1992 |
| Mihai Severovan | Ministru al serviciilor comunale și exploatării fondului de locuințe | 29 July 1992 |
| Dumitru Nidelcu | Ministru al muncii și protecției sociale | 29 July 1992 |
| Andrei Cheptine | Ministru al relațiilor economice externe | 23 July 1992 |
| Nicolae Țâu | Ministru al afacerilor externe | 23 July 1992 |
| Constantin Antoci | Ministru al afacerilor interne | 7 July 1992 |
| Vasile Calmoi | Ministru al securității naționale | 21 July 1992 |
| Pavel Creangă | Ministru al apărării | 21 July 1992 |
| Gheorghe Ghidirim | Ministru al sănătății | 23 July 1992 |
| Nicolae Mătcaș | Ministru al științei și învățământului | 29 July 1992 |
| Ion Ungureanu | Ministru al culturii și cultelor | 28 July 1992 |
| Petru Sandulachi | Ministru al tineretului, sportului și turismului | 29 July 1992 |
On small screens, scroll the table horizontally to see all columns.Initial composition; later changes may be missing. Position titles are given in Romanian, as in the source. Source: alegeri.md (secondary source).
Cabinet composition: Sangheli II Cabinet 25 members
| Name | Position | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Andrei Sangheli | Prim-ministru | 31 March 1994 |
| Valentin Cunev | Viceprim-ministru | 5 April 1994 |
| Ion Guțu | Viceprim-ministru | 5 April 1994 |
| Valeriu Bulgari | Viceprim-ministru | 5 April 1994 |
| Grigore Ojog | Viceprim-ministru | 16 September 1994 |
| Gheorghe Gusac | Ministru de stat | 5 April 1994 |
| Valeriu Bobuțac | Ministru al economiei | 5 April 1994 |
| Valeriu Chițan | Ministru al finanțelor | 5 April 1994 |
| Ceslav Ciobanu | Ministru al privatizării și administrării proprietății de stat | 5 April 1994 |
| Grigore Triboi | Ministru al industriei | 5 April 1994 |
| Vitalie Gorincioi | Ministru al agriculturii și alimentației | 5 April 1994 |
| Ion Casian | Ministru al comunicațiilor și informaticii | 5 April 1994 |
| Dumitru Nidelcu | Ministru al muncii, protecției sociale și familiei | 5 April 1994 |
| Timofei Moșneaga | Ministru al sănătății | 5 April 1994 |
| Petru Gaugaș | Ministru al învățământului | 5 April 1994 |
| Mihai Cibotaru | Ministru al culturii | 5 April 1994 |
| Vasile Sturza | Ministru al justiției | 5 April 1994 |
| Pavel Creangă | Ministru al apărării | 5 April 1994 |
| Constantin Antoci | Ministru al afacerilor interne | 5 April 1994 |
| Vasile Calmoi | Ministru al securității naționale | 5 April 1994 |
| Mihai Popov | Ministru al afacerilor externe | 5 April 1994 |
| Vasile Iovv | Ministru al transporturilor și gospodăriei drumurilor | 5 April 1994 |
| Mihai Severovan | Ministru al serviciilor comunale și exploatării fondului de locuințe | 5 April 1994 |
| Victor Pușcaș | Ministru pentru relațiile cu Parlamentul | 5 April 1994 |
| Gheorghe Tabunșcic | Guvernator al Găgăuziei | 19 June 1995 |
On small screens, scroll the table horizontally to see all columns.Initial composition; later changes may be missing. Position titles are given in Romanian, as in the source. Source: alegeri.md (secondary source).
Education
An agronomist by training, he graduated from the Frunze Agronomic Institute in Chișinău (1971) and from the Party School in Kyiv.
Background
Party: Democratic Agrarian Party of Moldova (PDAM)
Andrei Sangheli was born on 20 July 1944 in Grinăuți-Moldova (Ocnița district) and is an agronomist by profession. He was a member of the Soviet Communist Party from 1967 to 1991 and rose through the Soviet agricultural structures: chief agronomist of a collective farm, state-farm director, then, from 1986, head of the agro-industrial complex and deputy chairman of the Moldavian SSR Council of Ministers.
From 1990 he served as agriculture minister and first deputy prime minister in the Druc and Muravschi governments. On 1 July 1992, in the middle of the Transnistria conflict, President Snegur designated him prime minister, as part of a conciliation government.
With nearly five and a half years in office, Sangheli led the longest-serving government in the republic's history. His mandate was marked by the introduction of the national currency, the 1994 Constitution and the policies of the agrarian PDAM, which won the 1994 elections. He ran for president in 1996 but placed fourth, and the government resigned in January 1997.
After office
After resigning he withdrew gradually from politics; Romanian Wikipedia lists him as general director of the company Limagrain Moldova (undated).