Mircea Druc (born 25 July 1941) is a Moldovan and Romanian politician who served as Prime Minister of Moldova between 26 May 1990 and 22 May 1991.
Mircea Druc | |
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._(49419603303)_(cropped).jpg) Druc in 1991 | |
| Prime Minister of SSR Moldova | |
| In office 26 May 1990 – 28 May 1991 | |
| President | Mircea Snegur |
| Deputy | Andrei Sangheli Constantin Oboroc Constantin Tampiza |
| Preceded by | Petru Pascari (as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Moldavian SSR) |
| Succeeded by | Valeriu Muravschi (as Prime Minister of Moldova) |
| Member of the Moldovan Parliament | |
| In office 17 April 1990 – 25 May 1990 | |
| Parliamentary group | Popular Front |
| Constituency | Strășeni |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 July 1941 Pociumbăuți, Kingdom of Romania |
| Citizenship |  Moldova Romania |
| Political party | Independent Popular Front of Moldova |
He was appointed as Prime Minister after the opposition walked out from the Parliament, as a protest to the policies of the nationalist Popular Front of Moldova.[1]
His government purged non-Moldovans from cultural institutions and changed the outlook of the education system to be centred towards Romanian-language education, away from the Russian-centric education system of the Soviet era.[2] Street names and the symbols of the state were changed to show the Romanian heritage of Moldova.[2]
In May 1991, he was removed from his position after an overwhelming vote of no confidence.[3] After his dismissal he came under scrutiny for questionable financial dealings.[4] He was also accused of promoting subjugation of the Russian speakers.[1]
When asked about the union with Romania, he answered that first, there need to be a few hundred Romanian-Moldovan joint ventures and some tens of thousands of mixed marriages.[2]
He ran as an independent candidate with a single-issue platform of union of Romania and Moldova in the 1992 Romanian presidential election, receiving 326,866 votes (2.75%).
Druc stayed in Romania, where he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 2001 and 2004. In 2004 he joined the nationalist Greater Romania Party.[5] He is currently working at the Commerce and Industry Chamber of Romania, involved in projects for trans-border cooperation between Romania, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.[6]
In the 2008 Romanian legislative election, Druc ran for a place in the Romanian Parliament in a constituency in Suceava County, being a candidate of the Democratic Liberal Party.[7]
Electoral history
editRomanian Presidential elections
edit| Election | Affiliation | First round | Second round | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | Percentage | Position | Votes | Percentage | Position | ||
| 1992 | Independent | 362,866 | 5th | ||||
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Alla Skvortsova, "The Cultural and Social Makeup of Moldova: A Bipolar or Dispersed Society", in Pal Kolsto (editor), National Integration and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Societies: The Cases of Estonia and Moldova, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, ISBN 0-7425-1888-4, pp. 185-187.
- ^ a b c Charles King. The Moldovans: Romania, Russia and the Politics of Culture, Hoover Institution Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8179-9792-X. pp. 151-152
- ^ United States Congress. Joint Economic Committee, The Former Soviet Union in Transition, M.E. Sharpe, 1993, ISBN 1-56324-319-9, pp. 1001.
- ^ Karen Dawisha, Democratic Changes and Authoritarian Reactions in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-59732-3, pp. 301.
- ^ Mircea Druc s-a înscris în PRM[dead link], AMOS News, September 3, 2004
- ^ "Astăzi e ziua ta..." - Mircea Druc Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Jurnalul Naţional, 24 July 2007.
- ^ "Fostul premier la Moldovei, candidat PD-L de Suceava" Archived 2008-09-15 at the Wayback Machine, Evenimentul Zilei, 10 September 2008