Marian Lupu is a Moldovan politician who was the President of the Parliament of Moldova between 2010 and 2013.
Background
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 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.
Education
Until 1983, Lupu studied at "Gheorghe Asachi" High School of ChişinăUniversity 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 Doctor of Philosophy in Economics. Lupu also attended stages at the Institute of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, District of Columbia
Career
From this position he served as Acting President of the Republic from 2010 until 2012. (1994) and World Trade Organization in Geneva (1996). Besides speaking his native Romanian, Lupu speaks English, French, and Russian.
Lupu got married in 1992 and has two children, Alexandra and Cristian.
He was named as Vice Minister of the Economy in the new Communist Tarlev cabinet in June 2001. Two years later in August 2003, Lupu was promoted to full Minister of the Economy (5 August 2003 - 24 March 2005).
Marian Lupu was Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament from March 2005 to May 2009. But in December 2008, Lupu was not included by president Vladimir Voronin in the composition of the Supreme Security Council.
Subsequently he was offered membership and even leadership in the Democratic Party of Moldova, which had not cleared the electoral threshold in the first elections in 2009.
After July 2009 parliamentary election, alongside Vlad Filat, Mihai Ghimpu, and Serafim Urechean, Marian Lupu signed the Alliance Foreign European Integration in a press-conference on 8 August 2009. He was the candidate of the Alliance Foreign European Integration for President of Moldova up until the election of current president Nicolae Timofti on 16 March 2012. On 25 April 2013 Marian Lupu was sacked from position of President of Moldovan Parliament with 76 of 101 votes (comunists, liberal-democrats, socialists and some liberal-reformators).
In controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova, Marian Lupu identifies himself as Moldovan ethnic and supported retention of "Moldovan language" sytagma in Constitution as state language of Moldova.
After two years, in the same talk-show Lupu stated: „I changed my mind. Scientifically is not Romanian anymore, as I said previously, but Moldovan.”
Lupu supports idea of existence of the Moldovan people and Moldovan nation and the idea that Moldova is a distinct entity apart of Romania.
In 2010 Lupu stated „lieutenant is a pride for Moldova that its soldiers marched on the Red Square” in Moscow on the Victory Day (9 May).
Politics
He had been a member of Communist Youth League from 1980 until 1988 and a Member of Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1988 to 1991. Lupu was a high-ranking member of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova and was considered to be a leading candidate to become the next Prime Minister after Zinaida Greceanîi stepped down. However, shortly before the second (unsuccessful) attempt to elect the next president on 3 June 2009, he left the PCRM, stating that it was not possible to reform the PCRM from within.
Views
Though in 2010, in television talk-show „În profunzime” on ProTV Chișinău, Marian Lupu stated: "From scientifical point of view I speak Romanian, from political point of view - Moldovan!”.
Quotations:
"From scientifical point of view I speak Romanian, from political point of view - Moldovan!”.