Marian Lupu

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Marian Lupu

| image = Marian Lupu Senate of Poland (cropped).JPG

| predecessor = Vlad Filat (acting)

| primeminister = Vlad Filat

| party = Communist Party of the Soviet Union {{small|(Before 1991)}}
Party of Communists of Moldova {{small|(1993–2009)}}
Democratic Party of Moldova {{small|(2009–2019)}}

| office1 = President of the Moldovan Parliament

| predecessor1 = Mihai Ghimpu

| successor1 = Liliana Palihovici (acting)

| successor2 = Vladimir Voronin

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|6|20|df=y}}

| birth_place = Bălți, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
{{small|(now Moldova)}}

| death_date =

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| otherparty = Alliance for European Integration {{small|(2009–present)}}

| spouse =

| alma_mater = Moldova State University
Plekhanov Russian University of Economics

| term_start = 30 December 2010

| term_end = 23 March 2012

| term_start1 = 24 March 2005

| term_end1 =

| term_start2 = 24 March 2005

| term_end2 = 5 May 2009

| president2 = Vladimir Voronin

| president1 = Himself (acting)
Nicolae Timofti

| primeminister1 = Vlad Filat

| primeminister2 = Vasile Tarlev
Zinaida Greceanîi

| office4 = Member of the Moldovan Parliament

| president4 =

| primeminister4 =

| termstart4 = 24 March 2005

| termend4 = 7 February 2019

| predecessor4 =

| successor4 =

| deputy1 = Vlad Plahotniuc
Liliana Palihovici

| deputy2 = Maria Postoico
Vadim Mișin

| office2 =

| office3 = President of the Court of Accounts

| successor3 = Tatiana Șevciuc

| president3 =

| primeminister3 =

| primeminister5 =

| termend1 = 25 April 2013

| termend2 =

| termstart3 = 7 February 2019

| termend3 = 21 March 2024

| predecessor3 = Veaceslav Untilă

| office5 = President of the Democratic Party

| president5 =

| successor5 = Vlad Plahotniuc

| predecessor5 = Dumitru Diacov

| termstart5 = 19 July 2009

| termend5 = 24 December 2016

| office6 = Minister of Economy

| termstart6 = 5 August 2003

| termend6 = 24 March 2005

| president6 = Vladimir Voronin

| primeminister6 = Vasile Tarlev

| minister6 =

| parliamentarygroup1 =

| deputy3 = Viorel Chetraru

| caption = Lupu in 2011

| deputy =

| honorific_suffix = OR

| status5 =

| office7 = Deputy Minister of Economy

| successor6 = Valeriu Lazăr

| predecessor6 = Ștefan Odagiu

| termstart7 = 29 May 2001

| termend7 = 5 August 2003

| president7 = Vladimir Voronin

| primeminister7 = Vasile Tarlev

| minister7 = Andrei Cucu
Ștefan Odagiu

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| president =

| termstart1 = 30 December 2010

| parliamentarygroup4 = Party of Communists
Democratic Party

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Marian Lupu ({{IPA|ro|mariˈan ˈlupu|pron}}; born 20 June 1966) is a Moldovan economist and politician who was the President of the Parliament of Moldova between 2010 and 2013. From this position he served as Acting President of Moldova from 2010 until 2012.

Personal life

Marian Lupu was born on 20 June 1966 in Bălţi. When Marian was six, the family moved to Chişinău. His father, Ilie Lupu (b. 1938), was a mathematics professor at the Moldova State University.{{in lang|ro}}[http://www.timpul.md/articol/tatal-lui-lupu-insista-ca-wikipedia-sa-si-ceara-scuze-de-la-el-4119.html Tatal lui Lupu insista ca Wikipedia sa-si ceara scuze de la el], timpul.md 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 PhD 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).

Besides speaking his native Romanian, Lupu speaks English, French, and Russian.{{Cite web|url=http://www.presedinte.md/eng/biografia-presedintelui-interimar-marian-lupu|title=Mr. Marian Lupu knows French, English and Russian}} Lupu was married in 1992 and has two children.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

Political career

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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).

After the Communists won re-election in 2005, Lupu was once again promoted, this time as Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament.{{cite web|url=http://unimedia.info/stiri/marian-lupu---presedinte-al-parlamentului-si-presedinte-interimar-al-tarii-28056.html|title=Marian Lupu - președinte al Parlamentului și președinte interimar al țării|author=UNIMEDIA|work=UNIMEDIA}} 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. 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. 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.{{cite news|last=Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty|title=Moldovan Centrist Party Courts Communist Defector|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/Moldovan_Centrist_Party_Courts_Communist_Defector/1752206.html|access-date=10 June 2012|date=11 June 2009}}

After July 2009 parliamentary election, alongside Vlad Filat, Mihai Ghimpu, and Serafim Urechean, Marian Lupu signed the Alliance For European Integration in a press-conference on 8 August 2009.

He was the candidate of the Alliance For 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 (communists, liberal-democrats, socialists and some liberal-reformators).[http://www.publika.md/ultima-ora-moldova-a-ramas-fara-speaker--marian-lupu-a-fost-demis-cu-votul-comun-al-pldm-si-pcrm_1369401.html Moldova a rămas fără speaker. Marian Lupu a fost demis cu votul comun al PLDM și PCRM]

Political views

= Language and identity =

In controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova, Marian Lupu identifies himself as an ethnic Moldovan and supported retention of "Moldovan language" in Constitution as state language of Moldova. Though in 2010, in the TV talk-show "În profunzime" on ProTV Chișinău, Marian Lupu stated: "From a scientific point of view, I speak Romanian, from a political point of view – I speak Moldovan!”.{{in lang|ro}}[http://unimedia.info/stiri/-16574.html Marian Lupu: Din punct de vedere științific, vorbesc limba română, din punct de vedere politic - limba moldovenească!], unimedia.info After two years, in the same talk-show Lupu stated: "I changed my mind. Scientifically is not Romanian anymore, as I said previously, but the Moldovan [language].”{{in lang|ro}}[http://www.eurotv.md/stire-marian-lupu-m-am-razgandit-stiintific-nu-mai-este-limba-romana-cum-spuneam-anterior-ci-limba-moldoveneasca Marian Lupu: "M-am răzgândit. Științific nu mai este limba română, cum spuneam anterior, ci limba moldovenească."], eurotv.md, 25 September 2012 Lupu supports the idea of the existence of the Moldovan people and Moldovan nation and the idea that Moldova is a distinct entity apart from Romania.

= Others =

In 2010 Lupu stated that "It is a pride for Moldova that its soldiers marched on the Red Square” in the 2010 Moscow Victory Day Parade, going against other politicians who criticized the presence of the Moldovan National Army's Honor Guard Company.{{in lang|ro}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20140303205952/http://jurnal.md/ro/news/lupu-e-o-mandrie-pentru-moldova-ca-solda-ii-au-defilat-in-pia-a-ro-ie-186149/ Lupu: E o mândrie pentru Moldova că soldații au defilat în Piața Roșie - Politic - Jurnal.md] (archived [http://jurnal.md/ro/news/lupu-e-o-mandrie-pentru-moldova-ca-solda-ii-au-defilat-in-pia-a-ro-ie-186149/ from original])