Mircea Druc (born 25 July 1941) is a

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between 26 May 1990 and 22 May 1991. He was appointed as Prime Minister after the opposition walked out from the Parliament, as a protest to the policies of the nationalist

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.Alla Skvortsova, "The Cultural and Social Makeup of Moldova: A Bipolar or Dispersed Society", in Pal Kolsto (editor), ''National Integration and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Societies: The Cases of Estonia and Moldova'',

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, 2002, , pp. 185-187. His government purged non-Moldovans from cultural institutions and changed the outlook of the education system to be centred towards Romanian-language education, away from the Russian-centric education system of the Soviet era.Charles King. ''The Moldovans: Romania, Russia and the Politics of Culture'', Hoover Institution Press, 2000, . pp. 151-152 Street names and the symbols of the state were changed to show the Romanian heritage of Moldova. In May 1991, he was removed from his position after an overwhelming

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. After his dismissal he came under scrutiny for questionable financial dealings. He was also accused of promoting subjugation of the Russian speakers. When asked about the union with Romania, he answered that first, there need to be a few hundred Romanian-Moldovan

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s and some tens of thousands of mixed marriages. He ran as an independent candidate with a single-issue platform of union of Romania and Moldova in the 1992 Romanian presidential election, receiving 326,866 votes (2.75%). Druc stayed in Romania, where he worked for the

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between 2001 and 2004. In 2004 he joined the nationalist

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. He is currently working at the Commerce and Industry Chamber of Romania, involved in projects for trans-border cooperation between Romania, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. In the

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, Druc ran for a place in the Romanian Parliament in a constituency in

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, being a candidate of the Democratic Liberal Party."Fostul premier la Moldovei, candidat PD-L de Suceava"
, ''Evenimentul Zilei'', 10 September 2008

Electoral history

Romanian Presidential elections

References

External links

Mircea Druc's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Druc, Mircea 1941 births Living people Anti-Russification activists People from Rîșcani District Eastern Orthodox Christians from Romania Moldova State University alumni Saint Petersburg State University alumni Romanian people of Moldovan descent Candidates for President of Romania Democratic Liberal Party (Romania) politicians Greater Romania Party politicians National Patriotic Front (Moldova) politicians Prime ministers of Moldova Popular Front of Moldova MPs Moldovan MPs 1990–1994 Romanian nationalists