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Marian Lupu

Marian Lupu (born 20 June 1966) was President of Moldova from 30 December 2010 to 23 March 2012, succeeding Vlad Filat and preceding Nicolae Timofti.

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Marian Lupu was born in Balti, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union in 1966, and he was raised in Chisinau. He was a member of Komsomol from 1980 to 1988 and of the CPSU from 1988 to 1991, and he remained an active communist as a member of the PCRM after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Lupu served as Vice Minister of the Economy under Vladimir Voronin and as Economics Minister from 2003 to 2005, and he served as President of Parliament from 2005 to 2009 from 2010 to 2013. In 2009, he left the PCRM after finding it impossible to reform the PCRM from within, joining the Democratic Party of Moldova and becoming its leader. Lupu served as acting President of Moldova from 2010 to 2012 amid a governmental crisis, and he served until Nicolae Timofti was elected in 2012; he was sacked as President of Parliament in 2013. In 2019, he became Chairman of the Court of Accounts of Moldova.

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