Ion Sturza

Ion Sturza ( born May 9, 1960 in Pîrjolteni, Calarasi Raion ) is a Moldovan politician, and was from Februar until December 1999 Prime Minister of Moldova.

Biography

Family origins and ascent to big business

Sturza came from the old Romanian family Sturza ( Sturdza ) whose origin could be traced back to around 1540. The family was long and intimate with the governments of Moldova and later joined by Romania. Its members were two main branches, which their ancestors had in the two sons of Chiriac Sturdza, one hand in Ion Ionita Sandu Sturdza, the prince of Moldavia from 1822 to 1828, or in the Russian publicist and diplomat Alexandru Sturdza. Other significant members of the family included the Prince of Moldavia 1834-1849, Mihail Sturdza, General Grigore Sturdza and the more times Prime Minister of Romania Alexandru Dimitrie Sturdza.

After school he studied economics at the State University Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Chisinau. After graduating, he was first in areas of the economy and cultural exchanges worked, before he completed his military service between 1983 and 1985 and there was last Oberinstrukteur. Subsequently, he was until 1987 a speaker at the Society of Friendship with other countries ( " Asociaţiei de Prietenie cu Ţările straine "). He then became Deputy Director General of Foreign Trade Society of the Moldavian SSR, MOLDEX. In this role, he was primarily involved with projects of foreign investors to the renewal of the art of national industry as well as projects for the granting of foreign loans. In addition, he was responsible for coordinating the financing, planning and construction of canneries in Orhei, Camenca, Cupcini, Ungheni, Soroca, Floreşti and other cities of the country.

After the independence of Moldova as an independent republic in 1991, he was founder and Director and Chairman of the Board of Incomn JSC, a company that became the leading financial and industrial group in Bessarabia. In addition, he was founder and owner of " MoldInconBank " in Chisinau. He has beside these activities also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of " FinComBank ", which was according to economic analysts and leading the safest bank in the country in 1996. Sturza was also a member of the Executive Board of the International Association of producers of fruit juices in Paris and member of the Supreme Economic Council of the President of the Republic of Moldova. Through its majority stake in Incom he acquired ultimately a monopoly in the manufacture of beverages as well as fruit and vegetables. This made it possible to get it through the government guarantee a loan of 22 million U.S. dollars from the International Monetary Fund ( IMF) for renewal of the private manufacturing technologies. In addition, he was also president of the Foreign Policy Association ( Asociaţiei pentru Politica externa ) and Honorary Consul of Kazakhstan in Moldova.

Advance to the Prime Minister of Moldova

On May 22, 1998 he was appointed after confirmation by the Parliament to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Reforms in the government of Prime Minister Ion Ciubuc and was the leading economic policy makers of the country.

Following the resignation of Ciubuc and the ultimate failure of their government formation by the Mayor of Chişinău Serafim Urecheanu he was commissioned on 19 February 1999 by President Petru Lusinschi with the formation of a government. On 3 March 1999 there was the first vote in Parliament, where he received 51 votes of 101 deputies present complete. Due to the judgment given on 6 March 1999 decision of the Constitutional Court that 52 votes were needed for a majority government, took place on 12 March 1999 a new vote in Parliament, this time she received the necessary majority of 52 votes in the Sturza. This ultimately in the formation of the first government managed a coalition of the center, called the Alliance for Democracy and Reforms ( Alianta pentru şi Reforme Démocratie (ADR ) ). His sworn on 12 March 1999 government were thereby in part also minister of the previous government to:

  • First Deputy Prime Minister Nicolae Andronic,
  • Deputy Prime Minister Alexandru Muravschi (new) and Oleg Stratulat,
  • Minister of Economy and Reforms Alexandru Muravschi ( new)
  • State Minister Vladimir Filat (new )
  • Foreign Minister Nicolae Tabacaru,
  • Commerce and Industry Minister Alexandra Can (new )
  • Finance Minister Anatolie Arapu,
  • Minister of Agriculture and Medium Industry Valeriu Bulgari,
  • Transport and Communications Minister Victor Cheibaş (new )
  • Environment Minister Arcadie Capcalea (new )
  • Minister of Territorial Development, construction and municipal cooperation Mihai Severovan,
  • Minister for Education and Science Anatol Grimalschi,
  • Minister of Culture Ghenadie Ciobanu,
  • Minister for Welfare, Social Security and Family Vladimir Guriţenco,
  • Health Minister Eugeniu Gladun,
  • Justice Minister Ion Paduraru,
  • Minister of National Security General Tudor Botnaru,
  • Interior Minister Major General Victor Catan,
  • Defense Minister Valeriu Pasat
  • As well as cabinet members by virtue of office, the governor of the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia Gheorghe Tabunşcic and the Mayor of Chişinău Serafim Urucheanu.

Over the term of office came on 11 May 1999 to replace security minister Botnaru by the former Defence Minister Pasat, whose office was in turn taken over by Boris Gămurari. In addition, Dumitru Croitor successor of Tabunşcic as governor of the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia on 24 September 1999.

One goal of his government was the support of small and medium-sized businesses. During his reign, there was a severe energy crisis, was the main cause in the event of the insolvency of the country and was thus accused the government of Sturza. Therefore, in the following years there were repeated requests to distrust of the Communist Party ( Partidul Comuniştilor din Republica Moldova), but was defeated by 40 votes of the parliamentary majority of the parties of the center of the ADR. On 5 November 1999 called for a new parliamentary majority, which also included Christian Democrats and independent MPs in addition to the Communists, a redesign of privatization, industrial and financial policy of the country.

On 9 November 1999, there was a renewed confidence motion. Due to the changed conditions Sturza was adopted by a majority of 52 votes pronounced distrust and thereby virtually unchecked. The 48 MPs of the ruling alliance " for democracy and reforms" were absent from the vote. For a no-confidence vote only a simple majority of 101 deputies counted Parliament is required. The dominated by the Communists Parliament the Government Sturza accused of corruption and mismanagement. It bluntly, the situation due to the energy crisis and the announcement of the Russian company Gazprom, the gas supplies to Moldova had to be reduced by forty percent. The IMF had a loan of $ 35 million offered if the Parliament of the privatization of wine and tobacco industries agree Moldova. The case brought by the government's proposals for the privatization of key industries found in the Moldovan parliament but not a majority, so that the IMF withdrew the offer of credit.

Another reason for the fall of the government may well also have been the disclosure of the report of a special commission appointed by the president to amend the constitution on August 4, 1999. According to this report, the previous government system leads to the instability of the country. Therefore, the report called for the exclusive right of the President to appoint the Prime Minister and the Minister. In addition, the President should be Chairman of the Supreme Security Council and may appoint all prosecutors and judges. In addition, the term of four should be extended to five years. In addition, the President should have the right to dissolve the Parliament have if this legislative process blocking for more than two months. Finally, the report looked at the reduction before the number of MPs from 101 to 70, which should be chosen only in constituencies.

President Lusinschi commissioned the first former Vice President under Sister Mini Andrei Sangheli, Valeriu Bobutac, to form a government, which, however, failed in the vote in Parliament on 22 November 1999. The subsequent attempt to form a government by Vladimir Voronin failed as well, until finally Dumitru Braghis was successor of Sturza as Prime Minister on 21 December 1999.

Retirement from politics

After retiring from politics sat Sturza his activities as entrepreneurs continue. In 2002, Sturza the functions of Presiding Director General of the company ROMPETROL MOLDOVA, which is part of the large private Romanian company group ROMPETROL and was mainly in Romania and South East Europe. Focus of the company, in addition to refining the marketing of petroleum products sowue the development, production and other services in the oil industry. This led in 2005 to the company's investment in the amount of 1.8 million euros to build a plastics factory.

In April 2005, he was within the group of companies ROMPETROL also vice president for relations with Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). As such, he is primarily responsible for the representation of the group of companies in Moscow and the building and strengthening economic relations with energy companies in these countries. In April 2006, he was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Group ROMPETROL NV. 2007, he was the initiator of the largest financial transaction in Romania as the Kazakh oil and gas company KazMunayGas for 2.7 billion U.S. dollars acquired a 75 percent stake of ROMPETROL.

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