Dumitru Diacov


Dumitru Diacov is a Moldovan politician, former President and Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova in several consecutive terms since the year 2005 and formerly between 1994 and 2001. He was former chairman of the Democratic Party of Moldova. In 2009, he gives to Marian Lupu the function of party chairman.

Biography

Dumitru Diacov was born on February 10, 1952, in Kargapolie, Kurgan Oblast, in a family of Bessarabian deportees. In 1969, he became a student at the Faculty of Letters, Journalism Department, of the Moldova State University from Chișinău. In 1974, Dumitru Diacov graduated from Belarusian State University and then worked for TeleRadio-Moldova. After 1984, he worked as correspondent in Chişinău for Komsomolskaya Pravda and then for Komsomol and CPSU in Moscow. Between 1989–1993, he worked for Information Telegraph Agency of Russia in Bucharest.
Dumitru Diacov was a Moldovan MP and the president of the Moldovan Parliament.
He was president of the Democratic Party of Moldova and later has been the honorary president.