Zinaida Greceanîi

Infobox Prime Minister
name = Zinaida Greceanîi


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order = Prime Minister of Moldova
term_start = 31 March 2008
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president = Vladimir Voronin
predecessor = Vasile Tarlev
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birth_date = birth date and age|1956|02|07|df=y
birth_place = Tomsk, USSR
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party = PCRM
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Zinaida Greceanîi (born February 7 1956 [http://gov.gov.md/md/biografia/ Page on Greceanii at government website] .] ) ( _ru. Зинаида Петровна Гречаная, Zinaida Petrovna Grechanaya) is a Moldovan politician. She is a member of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova [http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2008/03/24/020.html "Moldova's Leader Nominates First Female Prime Minister"] , Associated Press ("The Moscow Times"), March 24, 2008.] and has been the Prime Minister of Moldova since 31 March 2008. [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/31/europe/EU-POL-Moldova-New-Government.php "Moldova's Parliament approves new government"] , Associated Press ("International Herald Tribune"), March 31, 2008.] She is Moldova's first female Prime Minister and is the second female Communist head of government in Europe, the first having been Premier Milka Planinc of Yugoslavia. [http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/00women3.htm]

Greceanîi was born in Tomsk Region of the Russian Federation. She graduated from the Financial and Economic College in Chisinau and the State University of Moldova.

She was Deputy Minister of Finances from 2000 to 2001 and First Deputy Minister of Finances from 2001 to 2002. President Vladimir Voronin appointed her as Interim Minister of Finances on February 8 2002 and then appointed her as Minister of Finances on February 26 2002. After serving as Finance Minister for more than three years, she was appointed by Voronin as First Deputy Prime Minister on October 10 2005.

Following the resignation of Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev on March 19 2008, President Vladimir Voronin nominated Greceanîi as Prime Minister. Her Cabinet was approved by Parliament on March 31; it received 56 votes in favor out of the 101 members of Parliament. According to Greceanîi, the immediate focus of her Cabinet would on "media freedom, an active dialogue with civil society and the independence of justice". Greceanîi is married and has two children.

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