Iurie Roșca | |
Office: | Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova |
Term Start: | 16 June 2009 |
Term End: | 25 September 2009 |
Office2: | Vice President of the Moldovan Parliament |
Term Start2: | 24 March 2005 |
Term End2: | 22 April 2009 |
Predecessor2: | Mihai Camerzan |
Successor2: | Grigore Petrenco |
Term Start3: | 23 April 1998 |
Term End3: | 25 February 2001 |
Predecessor3: | Dumitru Diacov |
Successor3: | Vladimir Ciobanu |
Office4: | Member of the Moldovan Parliament |
Term Start4: | 3 September 1990 |
Term End4: | 22 April 2009 |
Birth Date: | 31 October 1961 |
Birth Place: | Telenești, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Moldova) |
Party: | Christian-Democratic People's Party (1994–present) |
Otherparty: | Popular Front of Moldova (1989–1994) |
Spouse: | Larisa Roșca |
Children: | Ștefan, Alexandra, and Oana |
Alma Mater: | Moldova State University |
Profession: | Journalist |
President: | Vladimir Voronin Mihai Ghimpu (acting) |
Primeminister: | Zinaida Greceanîi Vitalie Pîrlog (acting) |
President2: | Vladimir Voronin |
President3: | Petru Lucinschi |
Primeminister3: | Ion Ciubuc Ion Sturza Dumitru Braghiș |
Primeminister2: | Vasile Tarlev Zinaida Greceanîi |
Parliamentarygroup4: | Popular Front Christian-Democratic People's Party |
Alongside2: | Maria Postoico |
Iurie Roșca (born 31 October 1961) is a Moldovan politician who has served as president of the Christian-Democratic People's Party (PPCD) since 1994.[1]
Iurie Roșca graduated in 1984 from the journalism faculty of Moldova State University. He then worked as a correspondent for the newspaper Tinerimea Moldovei (The Youth of Moldova), a reporter for the National Television of Moldova, and an upper-level curator at the Dimitrie Cantemir Literature Museum in Chișinău.[2]
In 1989, Roșca became one of the founders of the Popular Front of Moldova (of which the PPCD is a successor). He was executive president of the organization from 1989 to 1994. Between 1990 and 2009, he was a deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova.
In 2005, his party voted for the re-election of the Communist president Vladimir Voronin,[3] and he became the Parliament's vice-president (a post he also held from 1998 to 2001).
In June 2009, he was sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister of the Moldovan Government[4] However, he only held that position until September of that year.
In summer 2024 Roșca was convicted of influence peddling over the construction of a building and sentenced to six years in prison.[5]