Zinaida Greceanîi
Zinaida Greceanii (Russian Зинаида Гречаная / Zinaida Grečanaja ) ( born February 7, 1956 in Tomsk Oblast, Soviet Union, now Russia ) is a Moldovan politician. She was from March 2008 to September 2009 Prime Minister of Moldova.
Zinaida Greceanîis parents were deported from Bessarabia to Siberia, where she was born. In the late 1960s the family was able to return to their homeland. Greceanii graduated here after their education an economics degree at the financial -economic and technical center at the State University of Moldova in Chisinau. From 1974 to 1994 she worked in the district administration of Briceni. From 1994 she held various posts at the Moldovan Ministry of Finance. In 2002 she was Minister of Finance and remained in that post until she was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova in 2005. Immediately after the surprising resignation of the Government Vasile Tarlev beat President Vladimir Voronin them on 20 March 2008 as the new Prime Minister before. The following day, she was elected by Parliament into office. Greceanii was close to the Communist Party ( PCRM ) and entered in the general election as a non-party to the choice list.
After the parliamentary elections in April 2009, she ran as presidential candidate for the Communists, but missed the necessary parliamentary majority by one vote. In the election in July 2009 after she was party leader Voronin second top candidate of the PCRM. After the narrow election defeat of the Communists and the resignation announcement, President Voronin also Greceanii said on September 9, 2009, to want to resign from her post as head of government. On September 14, they handed over the presidency to the Communists Vitalie Pirlog, who served as acting Prime Minister and was replaced soon after by the Liberal Democrats Vlad Filat.
In November 2011, Zinaida Greceanii made headlines when she announced her resignation from the Group of the communists together with two other deputies. The aim of the group was to move the parties of the governing coalition to choose Greceanîis the State President. To date, however, the advance was unsuccessful. Since the elections in April 2009, the narrow majority circumstances had prevented the freestyle of a new head of state in parliament.
Greceanii is married and has two children.