Irina Vlah

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Irina Vlah

Irina Vlah ( Russian Ирина Фёдоровна Влах / Irina Fjodorowna Wlach ; born February 24, 1974 in Comrat , Moldovan SSR ) is a politician from the Moldovan autonomous region of Gagauzia . She has been the Gagauz head of government ( Başkan ) since April 2015 . Vlah represents pro-Russian positions and advocates close ties to Russia.

Life

Vlah was born in 1974 in the Gagauz capital Comrat , at that time still part of the Soviet Union . Your home region has had the status of an autonomous region within the Republic of Moldova since the 1990s.

Vlah began her political career with the communists , who regained strength in Moldova after the collapse of the Soviet Union and formed the government from 2001 to 2009. In the parliamentary elections in 2005 she entered parliament for the communists for the first time. After the parliamentary elections in 2014 , she left her party. According to Vlah, the communists had betrayed their pro-Russian positions and agreed to the formation of a government by the PLDM and PD .

At the beginning of 2015, Vlah announced her candidacy in the Gagauz presidential elections (the Gagauz President is called Baskan ). Although she officially participated as a non-party, she was supported by Igor Dodon's Socialist Party . The socialists included numerous former members of the communists, and the party had surprisingly become the strongest force in the 2014 parliamentary elections.

In March 2015, Irina Vlah won the first ballot with 51.1% of the vote. It clearly prevailed over the second-placed Nicolai Dudoglo , who only achieved 18.2%. She officially took office on April 15, 2015, replacing incumbent Mihail Formuzal , who had not run again. Vlah is the first woman to head Gagauzia.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kp.ru/daily/26357.5/3239341/
  2. ^ Karl-Peter Schwarz: Pro-Russian forces gain influence in Gagauzia . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 24, 2015, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Vlah, Irina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Влах, Ирина Фёдоровна (Russian); Wlach, Irina Feodorovna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moldovan politician from the autonomous region of Gagauzia
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Comrat , Moldovan SSR