Maria Postoico (4 April 1950 – 11 September 2019) was a

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n politician. She was elected Vice President of the

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in 2005.

Life

Postoico was born in Horodiște in 1950. She studied to be a lawyer at the

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in 1978. She worked as an inspector until she was elected to parliament in 1998. She was elected as a

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deputy to the parliament on 24 January 2000 and she remained there until she joined the Moldovan parliament in 2005. She was elected in 2009 as part of the PCRM faction until 2016 being elected three times. She was elected as a Communist Party member with a working language of French. On 31 March 2005 she was elected vice-President on the Moldovan parliament. She remained in parliament until 2018. Postoico died in

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in 2019 of an illness.

References

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