Iurie Roșca


Iurie Roşca is a Moldovan politician who has served as president of the Christian-Democratic People's Party since 1994.

Biography

Iurie Roşca graduated in 1984 from the journalism faculty of the State University of Moldova. He then worked as a correspondent for the newspaper Tinerimea Moldovei, a reporter for the National Television of Moldova, and an upper-level curator at the Dimitrie Cantemir Literature Museum in Chişinău.

Political career

In 1989 Roşca became one of the founders of the Popular Front of Moldova. He was executive president of the organization in 1989–1994. Between 1990 and 2009 he was a deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova.
In 2005 his party voted for reelection of the Communist president Vladimir Voronin, and he became the Parliament's vice-president. In June 2009 he was sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister of the Moldovan Government However, he only held that position until September of that year.