Stella Ion Gherman (born 18 January 1974) is a Moldovan physicist and politician who served in the

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from 2005 until 2009 as a member of the Party of Communists.

Biography

Stella Gherman was born on 18 January 1974 in the village of Slobozia-Șirăuți in the far northwest of Moldova. A physicist by training, she worked as a physics teacher, and at some point served as mayor of Slobozia-Șirăuți. In the

2005 Moldovan parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Moldova on 6 March 2005.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1330 The result was a victory for the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM), which won ...

, Gherman was elected to the

as a member of the Party of Communists. While in parliament, she served as secretary of the Commission for Culture, Science, Education, Youth, Sports and Mass Media. In 2006 and 2007, she was a member of the European Union-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and she served on several Parliamentary Friendship Groups, most notably the groups for the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, and the

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. As a member of the Baltic friendship group, Gherman was part of a 2007 delegation to Latvia. She left parliament at the end of her term in 2009. Gherman ran again for parliament in the 2019 election, but was defeated.

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