Ion Hadârcă (born 17 August 1949) is a poet, translator and Moldovan politician, deputy to the

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between 1990 and 1998 and from 2009 to 2014. Ion Hadârcă was the founder and first president of the

Popular Front of Moldova The Popular Front of Moldova (PFM; , FPM) was a political movement in the Moldavian SSR, one of the 15 union republics of the former Soviet Union, and in the newly independent Moldova, Republic of Moldova. Formally, the Front existed from 1989 to ...

(1989–1992), chairman of the Liberal Reformist Party.

Biography

Ion Hadârcă was born on 17 July 1949 in Sîngerei,

Sîngerei District Sîngerei () is a district () in the north of Moldova, with the administrative center at Sîngerei. The other major city is Biruința. As of 1 January 2011, its population was 93,400. Between 1944 and 1991, Sîngerei district was called ''Lazov ...

. Between 1968 and 1970, he carried out the compulsory military service in the

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. He was the first president of the

(1989–1992). He was elected as president during the second congress of the Front (30 June – 1 July 1989) from among 3 candidates for the job; other two candidates that sought election to the post were Nicolae Costin and

Gheorghe Ghimpu Gheorghe Ghimpu (26 July 1937 – 13 November 2000) was a Moldovans, Moldovan politician and a political prisoner in the former Soviet Union and then in Moldova. Early life Ghimpu was born on 26 July 1937 in Colonița, a village in Bessara ...

. Ion Hadârcă was member of the

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(1989–1990) and the

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(1990–1998). Hadârcă was an MP of the

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until he joined the Liberal Party Reform Council in 2013.

Political activity

In 1974 he became a

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member. Since 1988, poet Ion Hadârcă is committed to the national liberation movement, to awaken the conscience of the Bessarabian Romanians. In 1989, he is elected as a deputy of the people in the URSS Parliament. In 1990, he is elected again as deputy in the

in his first democratic parliamentary term and holds the position of first deputy chairman of Parliament. On 28 January 1993, the President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova,

Alexandru Moșanu Alexandru Moșanu (19 July 1932 – 7 December 2017) was a Moldovan politician, historian and professor. Biography Alexandru Moșanu was born in Braniște, Rîșcani, Braniște, Kingdom of Romania (now in Rîșcani District, Moldova). He was t ...

, Vice-President Ion Hadârcă, the Chairman of the Mass Media Commission Valeriu Matei and the President of the Foreign Relations Commission

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surprisingly presented their resignation, motivating their gesture the desire to prevent public opinion "on the danger of full restoration of the totalitarian regime in the

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". In 1994, Ion Hadârcă is re-elected to the

. Between 1 January 1996 and 22 June 1998, he was an alternate member of the Republic of Moldova delegation to the

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. In 1998–2008 he did not participate in political activity. From 2008 to 2010 he is vice-president, and from 2010 until 2013 he is the first vice-president of the Liberal Party. In 2009 he became a deputy in the parliament on the lists of the

and chairman of the parliamentary faction of LP. On 12 April 2013 Ion Hadârcă together with 30 members of the Liberal Party (LP) met in the Council of the Liberal Reformist Party (CLRP), demanding replacing

Mihai Ghimpu Mihai Ghimpu (born 19 November 1951) is a Moldovan politician who served as Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament, President of the Moldovan Parliament and President of Moldova#Republic of Moldova (1991–present), Acting President of Moldova from 2 ...

with

Dorin Chirtoacă Dorin Chirtoacă (born 9 August 1978) is a Moldovan politician who served as Mayor of Chișinău from 2007 to 2018. He has been leader of Liberal Party (Moldova), Liberal Party (PL) since 2018. Biography His mother is Valentina, sister of Ghe ...

at the head of the LP. The next day the Republican Council of the Liberal Party expelled Ion Hadârcă from the ranks of the party, along with four other liberal-reforming deputies. As chairman of the PL parliamentary faction, he has participated in the negotiations on the majority pro-European training in Parliament and on 30 May 2013 he signed the agreement for the establishment of the Pro-European Governance Coalition. On 15 December 2013 Ion Hadârcă, at the Constitutional Congress of the Liberal Reformist Party, was elected as a chairman of the party.

Family

He is married to Maria and has two children: Ionela and Eugen. In addition to Romanian, Ion Hadârcă also speaks English and

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

References

External links

APCE – Ion Hadârcă

Timpul, 7 aprilie 2006 – ''Ion Hadârcă, scriitor: “TIMPUL face o muncă sisifică”''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hadarca, Ion 1949 births Living people Romanian people of Moldovan descent Moldovan male journalists Moldovan anti-communists Moldovan MPs 1990–1994 Moldovan MPs 1994–1998 Moldovan MPs 2009 Moldovan MPs 2009–2010 Moldovan MPs 2010–2014 Popular Front of Moldova MPs Deputy Presidents of the Moldovan Parliament Recipients of the Order of the Republic (Moldova) Romanian Popular Party politicians Corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova