Igor Grosu

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Igor Grosu
13th President of the Moldovan Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 July 2021
President	Maia Sandu
Prime Minister	Aureliu Ciocoi (acting) Natalia Gavrilița
Preceded by	Zinaida Greceanîi
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 March 2019
Deputy Minister of Education
In office 15 August 2012 – 12 August 2015
President	Nicolae Timofti
Prime Minister	Vladimir Filat Iurie Leancă Chiril Gaburici Natalia Gherman (acting) Valeriu Streleț
Succeeded by	Ion Șișcanu
Personal details
Born	(1972-11-30) 30 November 1972 (age 48) Andrușul de Sus, Moldovan SSR, Soviet Union (now Moldova)
Citizenship	Moldova  Romania[1]
Political party	Party of Action and Solidarity

Igor Grosu (born 30 November 1972) is a Moldovan politician who serves as the President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova since 29 July 2021. He has been a member of the Moldovan Parliament since March 2019. Grosu has been the acting leader of the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) since 9 December 2020.

Career and Political Activity[]

Igor Grosu is licensed in History^{[clarification needed]} and was an expert in projects for a few years^{[clarification needed]}. He became the Deputy Minister of Education of Moldova while the Minister of Education was Maia Sandu. In August 2015, the Prime Minister of Moldova, Valeriu Streleț, appointed Grosu as the Prime Minister's principal consultant for Science, Education, Health Policies and Social Protection. The next Prime Minister, Gheorghe Brega, dismissed Grosu a few months after he was appointed.

When Maia Sandu founded the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) in 2015-2016, Grosu joined as a founder-member of the party and became the party's General Secretary. In the 2019 parliamentary elections, he ran for the ACUM Platforma DA - PAS Electoral Bloc in 20th Constituency-Strășeni but was defeated by the incumbent Prime Minister, Pavel Filip. However, he was elected as deputy from the national list of the ACUM bloc, which had come in 4th place.

He also founded a few non-governmental organizations, such as: Amnesty International Moldova, National Assitance, the Non-Gov Organizations Information Center of Moldova CONTACT (Romanian: Centrul național de asistență și informare a ONG-urilor din Moldova "CONTACT"), Pro-Democracy Asociation (Romanian: Asociația Pro-Democrație), National Youth Council of Moldova (Romanian: Consiliul Național al Tineretului din Moldova), and the Analysis and Evaluation Center of Reform (Romanian: Centrul de analiză și evaluare a reformelor).^[2]

In December 2020, after Maia Sandu won the presidential elections and resigned from her quality of party member,^{[clarification needed]} Igor Grosu became the Acting President of PAS.^{[citation needed]} Maia Sandu appointed Grosu on March 25, 2021 to form a Government, in trying of dissolving^{[clarification needed]} the Tenth Legislative of Moldova. After a parliamentary majority leaved the Parliament^{[clarification needed]}, the proposal was automatically rejected. The Parliament was dissolved on April 28, 2021 and snap elections were held on July 11, 2021.

He ran in 2021 parliamentary elections with the first position of party^{[clarification needed]} and won the best electoral result of any electoral concurrent^{[clarification needed]} in Moldovan history: 52,80% of votes and 63/101 MPs. On July 29, he was voted by 64 MPs to be the President of the Moldovan Parliament and became the first politician^{[clarification needed]} in Moldova, as well as the Parliament is the first institution in Moldova, the parliamentary regime being reglementated by the Moldovan Constitution.^{[clarification needed]}

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