| Monica Babuc | |
| Office: | Member of the Moldovan Parliament |
| Term Start: | 9 March 2019 |
| Term End: | 23 July 2021 |
| Birth Date: | 29 March 1964 |
| Birth Place: | Bardar, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Party: | European Social Democratic Party |
| Otherparty: | Alliance for European Integration |
| Profession: | Historian |
| Office2: | Vice President of the Moldovan Parliament |
| Termend2: | 4 December 2020 |
| Termstart2: | 18 June 2019 |
| President2: | Igor Dodon |
| Primeminister2: | Maia Sandu Ion Chicu |
| Successor2: | Vladimir Vitiuc |
| Predecessor2: | Vladimir Vitiuc |
| Office3: | Minister of Education, Culture and Research |
| Termstart3: | 26 July 2017 |
| Termend3: | 8 June 2019 |
| President3: | Igor Dodon |
| Primeminister3: | Pavel Filip |
| Predecessor3: | Corina Fusu (as Minister of Education) |
| Successor3: | Liliana Nicolaescu-Onofrei |
| Parliamentarygroup: | Democratic Party |
| Parliamentarygroup1: | Democratic Party |
| Termstart1: | 9 December 2014 |
| Termend1: | 18 February 2015 |
| Office4: | Minister of Culture |
| President4: | Nicolae Timofti Igor Dodon |
| Primeminister4: | Iurie Leancă Chiril Gaburici Natalia Gherman (acting) Valeriu Streleț Gheorghe Brega (acting) Pavel Filip |
| Predecessor4: | Boris Focșa |
| Successor4: | Sergiu Prodan (2021) |
| Termstart4: | 30 May 2013 |
| Termend4: | 26 July 2017 |
| Successor1: | Eugeniu Nichiforciuc |
Monica Babuc (born 29 March 1964) is a politician and historian from the Republic of Moldova, who was Minister of Culture of the Republic of Moldova in four consecutive cabinets (Leancă, Gaburici, Streleţ and Filip) from 2013 to 2019.[1]
Monica Babuc is a member of the Democratic Party of Moldova, and formerly a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party.
In May 2015 she submitted his candidacy for the mayoralty of Chișinău.[2] In the televised electoral debates, she admitted that she speaks Romanian and is equally Romanian and Moldovan,[3] contrary to the position and ideology of the DPM leaders, Marian Lupu and Dumitru Diacov, who declare that they speak Moldovan and that they are Moldovans and not Romanian. At the local elections in Chisinau on 14 June 2015 Monica Babuc accrued 2.17% of the vote.
She is married and has a child. She speaks Russian, French and English.