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Zinaida Greceanîi
Zinaida Greceanîi (Romanian pronunciation: [zinaˈida greˈtʃanɨi̯]; born 7 February 1956) is a Moldovan politician. She was the President of the Moldovan Parliament between 8 June 2019 to 26 July 2021. Greceanîi was previously also the Prime Minister of Moldova from 31 March 2008 to 14 September 2009. She led the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) from 2016 to 2020 and was previously a member of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM). She was Moldova's first female Prime Minister and was the second female Communist head of government in Europe, preceded only by Premier Milka Planinc of former Yugoslavia. She has been referred to by her colleagues in PSRM as the "Moldovan Margaret Thatcher".
Greceanîi was born in Tomsk Oblast in Siberia in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. Her parents, Marioara Ursu (1918–1993) and Petrea Bujor (1906–1996), were deported in 1951 from Cotiujeni in the north of Moldova during Operation North because they were Jehovah's Witnesses. Her brother died during the deportation. Zinaida Greceanîi and her parents came back to Cotiujeni only in 1968. She was baptised as Eastern Orthodox by her grandmother on mother's side.
She graduated from the Financial and Economic College in the capital Chișinău and Moldova State University.
Greceanîi is married to Alexei Greceanîi and has two children.
In the mid 1990s, Greceanîi was employed as a head of the Department at the Ministry of Finance. She was Deputy Minister of Finances from 2000 to 2001 and First Deputy Minister of Finances from 2001 to 2002. President Vladimir Voronin appointed Greceanîi as Interim Minister of Finances on 8 February 2002 and then appointed her as Minister of Finances on 26 February 2002 as the only woman in the cabinet.
In the summer 2005, Greceanîi won the 2005 Chișinău election, but it was declared invalid because of the low turnout. On 10 October 2005, Greceanîi was appointed by Voronin as First Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova on 10 October 2005.
According to a 2019 opinion poll, Greceanii was the second most trusted politician in Moldova, and according to some other polls she was given the sixth and at the eighth rank accordingly.
Following the resignation of Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev on 19 March 2008, President Vladimir Voronin nominated Greceanîi as prime minister. The Cabinet of Zinaida Greceanîi was approved by Parliament on 31 March; it received 56 votes in favor out of the 101 members of Parliament. According to Greceanîi, the immediate focus of her Cabinet would be on "freedom of the media, an active dialogue with civil society and an independent judiciary". She increased the number of women ministers from 2 to 5 (25 per cent) and followed up on laws of gender equality.
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Zinaida Greceanîi
Zinaida Greceanîi (Romanian pronunciation: [zinaˈida greˈtʃanɨi̯]; born 7 February 1956) is a Moldovan politician. She was the President of the Moldovan Parliament between 8 June 2019 to 26 July 2021. Greceanîi was previously also the Prime Minister of Moldova from 31 March 2008 to 14 September 2009. She led the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) from 2016 to 2020 and was previously a member of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM). She was Moldova's first female Prime Minister and was the second female Communist head of government in Europe, preceded only by Premier Milka Planinc of former Yugoslavia. She has been referred to by her colleagues in PSRM as the "Moldovan Margaret Thatcher".
Greceanîi was born in Tomsk Oblast in Siberia in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. Her parents, Marioara Ursu (1918–1993) and Petrea Bujor (1906–1996), were deported in 1951 from Cotiujeni in the north of Moldova during Operation North because they were Jehovah's Witnesses. Her brother died during the deportation. Zinaida Greceanîi and her parents came back to Cotiujeni only in 1968. She was baptised as Eastern Orthodox by her grandmother on mother's side.
She graduated from the Financial and Economic College in the capital Chișinău and Moldova State University.
Greceanîi is married to Alexei Greceanîi and has two children.
In the mid 1990s, Greceanîi was employed as a head of the Department at the Ministry of Finance. She was Deputy Minister of Finances from 2000 to 2001 and First Deputy Minister of Finances from 2001 to 2002. President Vladimir Voronin appointed Greceanîi as Interim Minister of Finances on 8 February 2002 and then appointed her as Minister of Finances on 26 February 2002 as the only woman in the cabinet.
In the summer 2005, Greceanîi won the 2005 Chișinău election, but it was declared invalid because of the low turnout. On 10 October 2005, Greceanîi was appointed by Voronin as First Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova on 10 October 2005.
According to a 2019 opinion poll, Greceanii was the second most trusted politician in Moldova, and according to some other polls she was given the sixth and at the eighth rank accordingly.
Following the resignation of Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev on 19 March 2008, President Vladimir Voronin nominated Greceanîi as prime minister. The Cabinet of Zinaida Greceanîi was approved by Parliament on 31 March; it received 56 votes in favor out of the 101 members of Parliament. According to Greceanîi, the immediate focus of her Cabinet would be on "freedom of the media, an active dialogue with civil society and an independent judiciary". She increased the number of women ministers from 2 to 5 (25 per cent) and followed up on laws of gender equality.
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