Dumitru Braghiș

Dumitru Braghiș (2001)

Dumitru Braghiş (born December 28, 1957 in Grătieşti , Chişinău ) is a Moldovan politician and was Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova from 1999 to 2001.

biography

Activities in the Moldovan SSR and in the Republic of Moldova

After attending school, he completed a degree in engineering with a focus on energy management at the “ Serghei Lazo ” polytechnic in Chișinău . After completing his studies, he began working as an engineer in the Chisinau tractor factory in 1980 . Subsequently, he began his political career in which until 1991 he held various functions within the youth organization of the CPSU , Komsomol . In the meantime he was also an instructor of the Central Committee (ZK) of the Communist Party (KP) of the Moldovan SSR from 1987 to 1988 . In addition, between 1989 and 1991 he was a representative of the Komsomol in the People's Deputies Congress .

After the declaration of the former Moldovan SSR to the Republic of Moldova on May 23, 1991, Braghiș became Deputy General Director of the company "Moldova-EXIM" in 1992. In 1995 he began a career in the Moldovan government , where he was Director General of the External Economic Relations Department in the Ministry of Economy until 1999 . In 1997 he also became Deputy Minister and finally in 1998 First Deputy Minister for Economy and Reforms. During these years Braghiș was a key contributor to the ministers Valeriu Bobuțac, Ion Guțu and Ion Sturza .

Prime Minister 1999 to 2001

After the successful vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Sturza and the failed government formations by Bobuțac and Vladimir Voronin , he finally succeeded Sturza as Prime Minister on December 21, 1999 at the suggestion of President Petru Lucinschi . Most of the ministers took over cabinet offices for the first time. His government included the following ministers:

• Deputy Prime Ministers Eugeniu Șlopac (new), Valeriu Cosarciuc (new) and Lidia Guțu (new)
• Minister for Economy and Reforms Eugeniu Șlopac (new),
• Foreign Minister Nicolae Tăbăcaru,
• Industry and Energy Minister Ion Leșanu (new),
• Finance Minister Mihail Manoli (new),
• Minister for Agriculture and Small and Medium-Sized Industry Ion Russu (new),
• Transport and Communication Minister Afanasie Smochin (new),
• Environment Minister Arcadie Capcalea,
• Minister of Education and Science Ion Guțu (new),
• Minister of Culture Ghenadie Ciobanu,
• Minister for Welfare, Social Security and Families Valerian Revenco (new),
• Health Minister Vasile Parasca (new),
• Minister of Justice Valeria Șterbeț (new),
• Interior Minister Major General Vladimir Țurcan (new),
• Defense Minister Boris Gămurari
• as well as cabinet members by virtue of the governor of the Gagauz Autonomous Territorial Unit Dumitru Croitor and the mayor of Chișinău, Serafim Urecheanu .

During his reign it came to the following government reshuffles. On March 15, 2000, the General Director of TIREX-Petrol Aktiengesellschaft (Societate pe acțiuni), Andrei Cucu, took over from Eugeniu Șlopac as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economy and Reforms. On September 5, 2000, Ion Răileanu succeeded Environment Minister Arcadie Capcalea. On November 22, 2000, the former Minister of State and current Ambassador to Hungary and Croatia , Nicolae Cernomaz, succeeded Nicolae Tăbăcaru as the new Foreign Minister, while Ilie Vancea replaced the previous Minister of Education and Science Ion Guțu.

During his term of office there were also official visits to the Federal Republic of Germany, for example on May 12, 2000 on the occasion of the EXPO 2000 in Hanover .

In the 2001 elections, the Communist Party of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM - Partidul Comuniștilor din Republica Moldova) under Vladimir Voronin received 50.1% of the vote, but due to the threshold clauses against small parties (the hurdle is 6%) 71 out of 101 seats. She could thus return to power. The communists owed this success primarily to the impoverished sections of the population. Braghiș himself was elected member of parliament and achieved 13.3 percent of the vote and 19 seats with the electoral alliance "Alianța Braghiș" under his chairmanship.

On April 4, 2001, the president was elected by parliament. The leader of the Communist Party Voronin received the 71 votes of the communist MPs, while Prime Minister Braghiș, as an opposing candidate, received only 15 votes and Valerian Cristea, another communist candidate, received only 3 votes. One week after Voronin's election, on April 11, 2001, Vasile Tarlev was nominated to succeed Braghiş as Prime Minister.

Election defeats and leaving politics

Between June 23, 2003 and January 12, 2006 was a member of Moldova's five-person delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . In 2004 he was chairman of the “Moldova Noastra” faction, the third largest group in parliament. He also continued his contacts in Germany and was also a participant in the Bergedorf discussion group of the Körber Foundation in 2004 .

In the parliamentary elections on March 6, 2005 , he was re-elected as MP. His electoral alliance "Alianța Braghiș" was part of the newly formed electoral alliance "Moldova Democrată" under the chairmanship of the previous mayor of Chișinău Serafim Urecheanu , which received 28.4 percent and 34 seats. In July 2005 he ran as an independent candidate for the office of mayor of Chișinău, but achieved only 20.65 percent of the vote and was therefore subject to Vasile Ursu .

In April 2006 he became chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PDS). For this he stepped in the mayoral election of Chișinău on June 3, 2007 unsuccessfully against incumbent Veaceslav Iordan and the successful candidate of the Partidul Liberal , Dorin Chirtoacă in the subsequent runoff election . In February 2008 he was the focus of press reports on his income situation. His PDS merged with the Social Democrats at the end of 2008 and he became chairman of the Social Democratic Party .

In the parliamentary elections on April 5, 2009 , his Social Democratic Party achieved only 3.7 percent of the vote and no parliamentary mandate, so that Braghiș also left parliament. In doing so, he admitted the Communists' election victory and their own defeat in view of the financial crisis from 2007 onwards .

swell

• Homepage of the government of the Republic of Moldova
• Primeministers of Moldavia ( Memento of July 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• rulers.org
• “Land between East and West. Moldova has been an independent democracy since 1991 "
• PSD homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bilateral Moldavian-German relations
2. ↑ "" Red Moldau "and Romania's reaction to the slide to the left in the former Soviet republic", Konrad Adenauer Foundation country reports March 15, 2001
3. ↑ rulers.org - April 4, 2001
4. ↑ Council of Europe ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Interview with Dumitru Braghis, autumn 2004
6. ↑ 129th Bergedorf Round Table: “Borders and Horizons of the EU” ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ "Deputy Dumitru Braghis obtained last year incomes of nearly 50 thousand euros, while the speaker Marian Lupu - nearly 18 thousand euros", moldova.org February 8, 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatic marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ "Dumitru Braghis: It is not by accident that Moldovan voter has chosen the stability", OMEGA April 6, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.