Mircea Druc
Mircea Druc Moldovan Parliament | |
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In office 17 April 1990 – 25 May 1990 | |
Parliamentary group | Popular Front |
Constituency | Strășeni |
Personal details | |
Born | Independent Popular Front of Moldova | 25 July 1941
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.
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
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
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
Electoral history
Romanian Presidential elections
Election | Affiliation | First round | Second round | ||||
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Votes | Percentage | Position | Votes | Percentage | Position | ||
1992 | Independent | 362,866 | 3.0% |
5th |
External links
References
- ^ 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, ISBN 0-7425-1888-4, pp. 185-187.
- ^ ISBN 0-8179-9792-X. pp. 151-152
- ISBN 1-56324-319-9, pp. 1001.
- 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