Vlad Filat

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Vlad Filat
Vlad Filat during the 2009 election campaign

Vladimir "Vlad" Filat ( Cyrillic Влад Филат; born May 6, 1969 in Lăpuşna , Hînceşti Rajon ) is a Moldovan politician and businessman. He is chairman of the Partidul Liberal Democrat din Moldova (PLDM; German  Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova ) and was Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova from September 25, 2009 to March 5, 2013. From December 28 to 30, 2010, he was acting President of Moldova .

biography

After finishing school in his birthplace, Vlad Filat did his military service in the Soviet Army from 1987 to 1989 . From 1990 to 1994 he studied law at the Faculty of Law at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iași University in Romania .

After completing his studies, Filat initially stayed in Iași and worked there in the private sector. In 1998 he returned to Moldova, where he became General Director of the Office for Privatization and State Property Management. During this time, his name was mentioned in connection with several scandals. Under his leadership, state property is said to have been sold several times at prices well below market value and without prior tendering. In 1998 Romanian law enforcement agencies investigated Filat for large-scale commercial cigarette smuggling. The investigation was soon closed, presumably because of Filat's appointment as minister.

From March to November 1999 he was Minister of State in the Moldovan government. In 2000 he was elected chairman of the Partidul Democrat din Moldova ( German  Democratic Party of Moldova ), for which he entered parliament after the 2005 elections. In the 2007 local elections, he ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for mayor in the capital, Chișinău . It received 8.3% of the vote. In September 2007, Vlad Filat left his previous party and was elected first chairman of the newly founded PLDM in December of that year.

After the parliamentary elections in April 2009 , Filat and the leaders of the other opposition parties took part in the protests against the ruling communists , who were accused of election fraud.

The new elections in July 2009 resulted in a narrow parliamentary majority from the western-oriented liberal and conservative parties. They came together to form the Alliance for European Integration . The newly elected Speaker of Parliament, Mihai Ghimpu , proposed Vlad Filat for the post of Prime Minister on September 17, 2009 in his capacity as acting head of state. He was elected the new head of government by parliament on September 25th. After the parliamentary elections on November 28, 2010, the Alliance for European Integration was able to expand its majority from 53 to 59 seats, and Filat was confirmed in his office.

On March 5, 2013, 54 of the 101 members of parliament expressed their distrust. His renewed commissioning of the formation of a government on April 10, 2013 by President Nicolae Timofti was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court. His acting successor was then Foreign Minister Iurie Leancă .

When Leancă failed in a vote of confidence on February 12, 2015, journalists and representatives of the opposition saw, among others, Vlad Filat as the initiator and beneficiary of this event. The aim was to prevent the reforms and anti-corruption measures sought by Leancă. FAZ correspondent Karl-Peter Schwarz described Filat as one of the richest and most unscrupulous entrepreneurs in the country.

On October 15, 2015, Filat, who had been a member of parliament until then, was withdrawn from his parliamentary immunity. He is accused of being involved in the disappearance of one billion euros from the Moldovan banking system. Operations officers from the anti-corruption authority took Filat into custody immediately after the vote. On June 27, 2016 Filat was sentenced to nine years in prison for his involvement in the embezzlement of a total of 1 billion dollars (approx. 903 million euros) at three banks.

Web links

Commons : Vlad Filat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ЛЮДИ: Влад Филат
  2. ↑ IA Novosti Moldova : И.о. президента РМ выдвинул на пост премьера Влада Филата ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.newsmoldova.ru
  3. ↑ IA Novosti Moldova: Молдавский парламент утвердил лидера либерал-демократов Филата премьером ( Memento of the original of 4 December 2013, Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.newsmoldova.ru
  4. ↑ Election page at e-democracy.md (Moldovan)
  5. ↑ Wiener Zeitung : Political chaos in Moldova
  6. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine : Leanca loses vote of confidence
  7. ^ André Ballin: Republic of Moldova: Prison for former prime minister extended. In: derStandard.at. October 19, 2015, accessed February 10, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Nine years imprisonment for former Prime Minister Moldova . In: Der Standard , June 27, 2016. Retrieved June 28, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Filat, Vlad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Filat, Vladimir (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moldovan politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Lăpușna , Moldovan SSR, Soviet Union