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Acting prime minister
Serafim Urechean
Acting term ended- Term duration
- 12 days
- PM affiliation
- Affiliation unresolved
The catalogue assigns Independent while the biography mentions ADR. Classification needs reconciliation.
- Born
- 2 February 1950, Larga, raionul Briceni (RSS Moldovenească)
- Previous office
- General Mayor of Chișinău (1994–2005)
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.
- Status: on 5 February 1999 President Lucinschi designated him as candidate for prime minister (Decree No. 895), but he lacked parliamentary support and withdrew. The label “acting” appears in Wikipedia, Timpul and e-democracy.md; alegeri.md records him only as a “designated candidate”, and the Ciubuc II cabinet formally remained in office until 12 March 1999.
- The 17 February 1999 end date comes only from Wikipedia; the date the decree was repealed was not found.
- President
- Petru Lucinschi
- Political backing
- Alliance for Democracy and Reforms (the governing coalition, strained by the February 1999 crisis)
- How the mandate began
- On 5 February 1999, after Ion Ciubuc's resignation (1 February), President Petru Lucinschi designated him by decree (No. 895) as candidate for prime minister. The label 'acting' comes from Wikipedia, Timpul and the e-democracy.md profile; alegeri.md records him only as a designated candidate.
- How it ended
- Lacking parliamentary support, he withdrew his candidacy and the designation decree was repealed. On 19 February 1999 Lucinschi designated Ion Sturza. The 17 February date comes from Wikipedia and was not independently confirmed.
Events
- 1 February 1999: Prime Minister Ion Ciubuc resigns, ending the Ciubuc II government of the Alliance for Democracy and Reforms.
- 5 February 1999: President Lucinschi designates Serafim Urechean, mayor of Chișinău, as candidate for prime minister (Decree No. 895).
- Urechean withdraws for lack of parliamentary support and the decree is repealed. Wikipedia gives 17 February as the end of the interim period.
- 19 February 1999: Lucinschi designates Ion Sturza, who is invested on 12 March 1999.
Education
He graduated in 1974 from the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of the Chișinău Polytechnic Institute as a construction engineer.
Background
Party: Alliance for Democracy and Reforms (1998–2001); later Our Moldova Alliance (2003–2011)
Serafim Urechean was born on 2 February 1950 in the village of Larga, Briceni district. He graduated from the Chișinău Polytechnic Institute in 1974 and attended the Higher Party School in Leningrad (1983–1985). He worked as an engineer in Briceni, then held party and executive posts in the Briceni and Anenii Noi districts, and from 1987 to 1994 worked at the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Moldova. He sat in Parliament from 1990 to 1994.
From 1994 to 2005 he ran Chișinău as General Mayor. In February 1999, after Prime Minister Ion Ciubuc resigned, President Petru Lucinschi put him forward for prime minister; lacking enough support in Parliament, Urechean withdrew, and Ion Sturza was designated on 19 February.
He led the Independents' Alliance (2001) and the Democratic Moldova bloc, which won 34 of 101 seats in 2005, after which he left the mayor's office. He was First Deputy Speaker of Parliament (2009–2010) and President of the Court of Accounts (2011–2016).
After office
He stayed General Mayor of Chișinău until April 2005, led the Our Moldova Alliance and the Democratic Moldova bloc, served as MP (also 2005–2009) and First Deputy Speaker (2009–2010), and was President of the Court of Accounts (2011–2016); in 2015 he ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Chișinău (about 3%).