Dumitru Diacov

Dumitru Diacov OR
Diacov in 2014
President of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 23 April 1998 – 20 March 2001
President	Petru Lucinschi
Prime Minister	Ion Ciubuc Ion Sturza Dumitru Braghiș
Preceded by	Dumitru Moțpan
Succeeded by	Eugenia Ostapciuc
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 29 July 2009 – 23 July 2021
Parliamentary group	Democratic Party
In office 22 March 2005 – 22 April 2009
Parliamentary group	Democratic Moldova Electoral Bloc Democratic Party
In office 27 February 1994 – 20 March 2001
Parliamentary group	Democratic Agrarian Party Democratic Party
President of the Democratic Party
In office 8 February 1997 – 19 July 2009
Succeeded by	Marian Lupu
Vice President of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 22 July 1995 – 23 April 1998
President	Mircea Snegur Petru Lucinschi
Prime Minister	Andrei Sangheli Ion Ciubuc
Preceded by	Nicolae Andronic
Succeeded by	Iurie Roșca
Personal details
Born	(1952-02-10) 10 February 1952 (age 72) Kargapolye, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Democratic Party (1997-2022)[1] Democratic Agrarian Party (1991-1997)
Other political affiliations	Alliance for European Integration Communist Party
Alma mater	Moldova State University Belarusian State University
Profession	Journalist

Dumitru Diacov (born 10 February 1952) is a Moldovan politician, former President of the Moldovan Parliament, member of the Parliament of Moldova in several consecutive terms since the year 2005 and formerly between 1994 and 2001. He was former leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova (from 2000 to 2009).^[2] In 2009, he gives to Marian Lupu the function of party chairman.

Biography

Dumitru Diacov was born on 10 February 1952 in Kargapolie, Kurgan Oblast (Russia), in a family of Bessarabian deportees. In 1969, he became a student at the Faculty of Letters, Journalism Department, of the Moldova State University from Chișinău. In 1974, Dumitru Diacov graduated from Belarusian State University and then worked for TeleRadio-Moldova. After 1984, he worked as correspondent in Chişinău for Komsomolskaya Pravda and then for Komsomol and CPSU in Moscow (1986–1989). Between 1989 and 1993, he worked for Information Telegraph Agency of Russia in Bucharest.^[3]

Dumitru Diacov was a Moldovan MP (1994–2001, 2005-May 2009, July 2009 – 2010) and the president of the Moldovan Parliament (23 April 1998 – 20 March 2001).

He was president of the Democratic Party of Moldova (1997-June 2009) and later has been the honorary president. In November 2022, when the Democratic Party was turned into the European Social Democratic Party, he opposed this change and he didn't join the new party. Due to this, he was removed from the position as honorary president.^[4]

External links

• Ex-Communist speaker elected leader of opposition party in Moldova

References

1. "Diacov spune că nu a susținut schimbarea PDM în PSDE. Ar fi refuzat și să adere la noua formațiune". 20 November 2022. Archived from the original on 23 August 2024. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
2. "Structura Parlamentului > Deputaţii » Diacov Dumitru". Archived from the original on 2016-03-24. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
3. 14 noiembrie 2006 Flux - Diacov, cameleonul-prizonier ^{[dead link‍]}
4. "Diacov spune că nu a susținut schimbarea PDM în PSDE. Ar fi refuzat și să adere la noua formațiune". 20 November 2022. Archived from the original on 23 August 2024. Retrieved 25 August 2024.