Marian Lupu | |
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.JPG) Lupu in 2011 | |
| ActingPresident of Moldova | |
| In office 30 December 2010 – 23 March 2012 | |
| Prime Minister | Vlad Filat |
| Preceded by | Vlad Filat (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Nicolae Timofti |
| 6th and 9thPresident of the Moldovan Parliament | |
| In office 30 December 2010 – 25 April 2013 | |
| President | Himself (acting) Nicolae Timofti |
| Prime Minister | Vlad Filat |
| Deputy | Vlad Plahotniuc Liliana Palihovici |
| Preceded by | Mihai Ghimpu |
| Succeeded by | Liliana Palihovici (acting) |
| In office 24 March 2005 – 5 May 2009 | |
| President | Vladimir Voronin |
| Prime Minister | Vasile Tarlev Zinaida Greceanîi |
| Deputy | Maria Postoico Vadim Mișin |
| Preceded by | Eugenia Ostapciuc |
| Succeeded by | Vladimir Voronin |
| President of the Court of Accounts | |
| In office 7 February 2019 – 21 March 2024 | |
| Deputy | Viorel Chetraru |
| Preceded by | Veaceslav Untilă |
| Succeeded by | Tatiana Șevciuc |
| Member of theMoldovan Parliament | |
| In office 24 March 2005 – 7 February 2019 | |
| Parliamentary group | Party of Communists Democratic Party |
| President of theDemocratic Party | |
| In office 19 July 2009 – 24 December 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Dumitru Diacov |
| Succeeded by | Vlad Plahotniuc |
| Minister of Economy | |
| In office 5 August 2003 – 24 March 2005 | |
| President | Vladimir Voronin |
| Prime Minister | Vasile Tarlev |
| Preceded by | Ștefan Odagiu |
| Succeeded by | Valeriu Lazăr |
| Deputy Minister of Economy | |
| In office 29 May 2001 – 5 August 2003 | |
| President | Vladimir Voronin |
| Prime Minister | Vasile Tarlev |
| Minister | Andrei Cucu Ștefan Odagiu |
| President of theRespect Moldova Movement | |
| Assumed office 12 April 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Eugeniu Nichiforciuc |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1966-06-20)20 June 1966 (age 59) |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union(Before 1991) Party of Communists of Moldova(1993–2009) Democratic Party of Moldova(2009–2019) Respect Moldova Movement(2025–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Alliance for European Integration(2009–2013) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Moldova State University Plekhanov Russian University of Economics |
Marian Lupu (Romanian:[mariˈanˈlupu]; born 20 June 1966) is aMoldovan economist and politician who was thePresident of the Parliament of Moldova between 2010 and 2013. From this position he served asActing President of Moldova from 2010 until 2012. He is currently the president of the partyRespect Moldova Movement (MRM).
Marian Lupu was born on 20 June 1966 inBălţi. When Marian was six, the family moved toChişinău. His father, Ilie Lupu (b. 1938), was a mathematics professor at theMoldova State University.[1] His mother taughtFrench language at theNicolae Testemiţanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy. He had been a member ofKomsomol from 1980 until 1988 and a Member ofCommunist Party of the Soviet Union from 1988 to 1991.
Until 1983, Lupu studied at "Gheorghe Asachi" High School ofChişinău. He studied Economics atMoldova State University (until 1987) and atPlekhanov Moscow Institute of the National Economy (1987–1991) inMoscow where he obtained his PhD in Economics. Lupu also attended stages at the Institute of theInternational Monetary Fund inWashington, D.C. (1994) andWorld Trade Organization inGeneva (1996).
Besides speaking his nativeRomanian, Lupu speaksEnglish, French, andRussian.[2] Lupu was married in 1992 and has two children.[citation needed]
He was named as Vice Minister of the Economy in the newCommunistTarlev cabinet in June 2001. Two years later in August 2003, Lupu was promoted to full Minister of the Economy (5 August 2003 - 24 March 2005).
After the Communists wonre-election in 2005, Lupu was once again promoted, this time asSpeaker of the Moldovan Parliament.[3] Marian Lupu wasSpeaker of theMoldovan Parliament from March 2005 to May 2009. But in December 2008, Lupu was not included by presidentVladimir Voronin in the composition of the Supreme Security Council. Lupu was a high-ranking member of theParty of Communists of the Republic of Moldova and was considered to be a leading candidate to become the nextPrime Minister afterZinaida Greceanîi stepped down; however, shortly before the second (unsuccessful) attempt to elect the next president on 3 June 2009, he left the PCRM, stating that it was not possible to reform the PCRM from within. Subsequently, he was offered membership and even leadership in theDemocratic Party of Moldova, which had not cleared the electoral threshold in the first elections in 2009.[4]
AfterJuly 2009 parliamentary election, alongsideVlad Filat,Mihai Ghimpu, andSerafim Urechean, Marian Lupu signed theAlliance For European Integration in a press-conference on 8 August 2009.
He was the candidate of theAlliance For European Integration forPresident of Moldova up until the election of presidentNicolae Timofti on 16 March 2012.
On 25 April 2013 Marian Lupu was sacked from position of President of Moldovan Parliament with 76 of 101 votes (communists,liberal-democrats,socialists and some liberal-reformators).[5]
On 12 April 2025, Lupu became the president of the partyRespect Moldova Movement (MRM), succeedingEugeniu Nichiforciuc, who continued his activity within the party.[6]
Incontroversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova, Marian Lupu identifies himself as anethnic Moldovan and supported retention of "Moldovan language" inConstitution as state language of Moldova. Though in 2010, in the TV talk-show "În profunzime" onProTV Chișinău, Marian Lupu stated: "From a scientific point of view, I speak Romanian, from a political point of view – I speak Moldovan!”.[7] After two years, in the same talk-show Lupu stated: "I changed my mind. Scientifically is not Romanian anymore, as I said previously, but the Moldovan [language].”[8] Lupu supports the idea of the existence of the Moldovan people and Moldovan nation and the idea that Moldova is a distinct entity apart from Romania.
In 2010 Lupu stated that "It is a pride for Moldova that its soldiers marched on theRed Square” in the2010 Moscow Victory Day Parade, going against other politicians who criticized the presence of theMoldovan National Army'sHonor Guard Company.[9]
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