Iurie Leancă

Iurie Leancă OR
Leancă in 2013
9th Prime Minister of Moldova
In office 30 May 2013 – 18 February 2015
President	Nicolae Timofti
Deputy	See list Natalia Gherman Valeriu Lazăr Eugen Carpov Tatiana Potîng Andrian Candu
Preceded by	Vladimir Filat
Succeeded by	Chiril Gaburici
President of the European People's Party
In office 26 July 2015 – 26 July 2019
Succeeded by	Eugen Sturza (acting)
Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova for European Integration
In office 10 January 2018 – 8 June 2019
President	Igor Dodon
Prime Minister	Pavel Filip
Succeeded by	Cristina Gherasimov (2024)
Vice President of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 2 June 2017 – 22 December 2017 Serving with Vladimir Vitiuc
President	Igor Dodon
Prime Minister	Pavel Filip
Preceded by	Liliana Palihovici
Succeeded by	Valeriu Ghilețchi
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 9 December 2014 – 22 December 2017
Succeeded by	Sergiu Ceauș
Parliamentary group	Liberal Democratic Party European People's Party
In office 24 December 2010 – 14 January 2011
Succeeded by	Maria Nasu
Parliamentary group	Liberal Democratic Party
In office 22 April 2009 – 25 September 2009
Succeeded by	Nicolae Olaru
Parliamentary group	Liberal Democratic Party
Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova
In office 25 September 2009 – 30 May 2013 Serving with Valeriu Lazăr
President	Mihai Ghimpu (acting) Vladimir Filat (acting) Marian Lupu (acting) Nicolae Timofti
Prime Minister	Vladimir Filat
Preceded by	Andrei Stratan
Succeeded by	Natalia Gherman
Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration
In office 25 September 2009 – 30 May 2013
President	Mihai Ghimpu (acting) Vladimir Filat (acting) Marian Lupu (acting) Nicolae Timofti
Prime Minister	Vladimir Filat
Preceded by	Andrei Stratan (as Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Succeeded by	Natalia Gherman
First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 22 March 1999 – 4 October 2001
President	Petru Lucinschi Vladimir Voronin
Prime Minister	Ion Sturza Dumitru Braghiș Vasile Tarlev
Minister	Nicolae Tăbăcaru Nicolae Cernomaz Nicolae Dudău
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 15 June 1998 – 22 March 1999
President	Petru Lucinschi
Prime Minister	Ion Ciubuc Ion Sturza
Minister	Nicolae Tăbăcaru
Personal details
Born	(1963-10-20) 20 October 1963 (age 61) Cimișlia, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Moldova)
Citizenship	Moldova  Romania
Political party	European People's Party of Moldova (2015–present) Liberal Democratic Party (2009–2015)
Other political affiliations	Alliance for Democracy and Reforms (1998–1999) Alliance for European Integration (2009–2013) Pro-European Coalition (2013–2015) PRO Romania (2019–present)
Spouse	Aida Leancă
Children	2
Alma mater	Moscow State Institute of International Relations

Iurie Leancă (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈjuri.e ˈle̯aŋkə]; born 20 October 1963) is a Moldovan politician who was the prime minister of Moldova from 2013 until 2015. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration from 2009 to 2013 as part of the First and Second Filat Cabinet.

Iurie Leancă was born on 20 October 1963 in Cimișlia. His father is Moldovan and his mother Bulgarian.^[1][2] He graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations and from 1986 until 1993, Leancă worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between June and October 1989, he served as second secretary at the Soviet embassy in Bucharest, Romania, first secretary in the political department of the foreign ministry of the Soviet Moldavia (1989–1990), and counselor of Moldova's Minister of Foreign Affairs specializing in European affairs (1990–1993).^[3]

Between 1993 and 1997, he was the Minister-Counselor at the Embassy of Moldova in Washington, D.C. Then, he was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2002, in the Alliance for Democracy and Reforms cabinets and in the Vasile Tarlev Cabinet (1). Also, he was the acting Foreign Minister of Moldova from 27 July to 4 September 2001.

In October 2001 I.Leancă tendered his resignation expressing thus his disagreement with the foreign policy objectives of the Communist Party of Moldova which came to power earlier that year. Following his resignation, he worked as the Ascom Group deputy CEO (2001–2005, 2007–2009). He worked also as a Senior Adviser to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe High Commissioner on National Minorities (2005–2007).

In January 2009 I.Leanca became a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM). He was elected as MP in April 2009 election and July 2009 election.^{[citation needed]} He resigned from the PLDM in early 2015, citing an insufficient commitment to pursuing pro-European reforms.^[4]

Leancă was also the vice-president of The Foreign Policy Association of Moldova (2005–2009).

Leancă was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Integration in the Vlad Filat Cabinet.^[5]

In a press conference on 21 October Leancă announced that official negotiations on the Moldova–EU association agreement would start on 12 January 2010.

He is married to Aida Leancă and has two children.

He speaks Romanian, Russian, English, French, Hungarian, and Bulgarian.^[6]

He was appointed acting prime minister on 25 April 2013 following the decision of the Constitutional Court of Moldova to prevent then acting prime minister Vlad Filat from being reappointed to the position he had held since 2009. In May 2013, Leancă was proposed by the PLDM as its candidate for prime minister. On 15 May, he was designated prime minister by the president Nicolae Timofti and invited to form a government. Negotiations continued until 29 May 2013, when the Pro-European Coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM), Democratic Party (PDM) and a break-away faction from the Liberal Party (PL), namely the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR), was agreed upon. The new government received the support of the Parliament with 58 votes on 30 May and was sworn in on 31 May.

Leancă ran in the 2019 European Parliament election in Romania as an MEP candidate for the Victor Ponta's recently founded PRO Romania party.^[7]

• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration
• Government of Moldova