Marian Lupu | |
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President of Moldova Acting |
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In office 30 December 2010 – 23 March 2012 |
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Prime Minister | Vlad Filat |
Preceded by | Vlad Filat (Acting) |
Succeeded by | Nicolae Timofti |
President of Parliament | |
In office 30 December 2010 – 25 April 2013 |
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Preceded by | Mihai Ghimpu |
Succeeded by | Liliana Palihovici (Acting) |
In office 24 March 2005 – 5 May 2009 |
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Preceded by | Eugenia Ostapciuc |
Succeeded by | Ivan Călin (Acting) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Bălți, Soviet Union (now Moldova) |
20 June 1966
Political party |
Communist Party (Before 1991) Party of Communists (1993–2009) Democratic Party (2009–present) |
Other political affiliations |
Alliance for European Integration (2009–present) |
Alma mater |
Moldova State University Plekhanov Russian University of Economics |
Marian Lupu (Romanian pronunciation: [mariˈan ˈlupu]; born 20 June 1966) is a Moldovan politician who was the President of the Parliament of Moldova between 2010 and 2013. From this position he served as Acting President of the Republic from 2010 until 2012.
Marian Lupu was born on 20 June 1966 in Bălţi, but he and his family moved to Chişinău when he was 6 years old. His parents gave him the nickname Marcel, because they liked the Romanian accordion musician Marcel Budală (1926–1989). His father, Ilie Lupu (b. 1938), was a mathematics professor at the Moldova State University. His mother taught French language at the Nicolae Testemiţanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy. He had been a member of Komsomol from 1980 until 1988 and a Member of Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1988 to 1991.
Until 1983, Lupu studied at "Gheorghe Asachi" High School of Chişinău. He studied Economics at Moldova State University (until 1987) and at Plekhanov Moscow Institute of the National Economy (1987–1991) in Moscow where he obtained his Ph.D. in Economics. Lupu also attended stages at the Institute of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. (1994) and World Trade Organization in Geneva (1996).