Vitalie Pîrlog

Vitalie Pirlog (born 28 July 1974 in Nisporeni, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union ) is a Moldovan politician and lawyer. He was 14 Managing to 25 September 2009 Prime Minister of Moldova.

Vitalie Pirlog studied 1997-2001 international law at the Universitatea din Moldova Liberă Internationala ( German Free International University of Moldova ) in Chisinau. After that, he worked initially in the Moldovan Presidential Administration. He soon moved to the Ministry of Justice, where he worked in the Department of International Relations. Pirlog represented the Republic of Moldova to intergovernmental legal institutions such as the European Court of Human Rights. On 20 October 2006 he was appointed Minister of Justice and held that post first under Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev and since March 2008, Zinaida Greceanii from. After Greceanii had announced her retirement after the defeat of the Communists in the elections in July 2009, Pirlog by President Vladimir Voronin was appointed Acting Prime Minister. He took office September 14, 2009 and handed this on September 25, 2009, Vlad Filat, who had been elected on that day by the Parliament as the new head of government.