Democratic Party of Moldova
Dumitru Diacov - President
Speaker of Moldova's parliament (1998-2001), chairman of the Democratic Party of Moldova. Diacov was born in deportation, in Kurgan, Russia. In 1956, he returned to Bascalia, Comrat, in the south of Moldova, from where his family had been deported in 1949. He graduated from the Minsk (Belarus) Institute of Journalism in 1974 and worked as a reporter for Moldova's State Television (1974-1979) and for the Moscow’s Komsomolskaya Pravda (1984-1986). Between 1989 and 1993, he was ITAR TASS bureau chief in Bucharest; and from 1993 to1994, he was political counselor at the Moldovan embassy in Moscow. He was a member and a parliamentarian deputy of the Democratic Agrarian Party of Moldova from 1994 until his exclusion in 1997, when he formed the centrist Movement for a Democratic and Prosperous Moldova, which won over 18 percent of the vote in the March 1998 parliamentary elections. In 2000, Diacov formed the Democratic Party of Moldova and he was elected its chairman in 2001. In 2005, he became a member of parliament as one of the representatives of the Democratic Moldova Bloc, from which he resigned soon after the elections to organize a break-away fraction of the Democratic Party.
A left-centrist party created in 2000 and chaired by its founder Dumitru Diacov. The PDM’s declared goals are the consolidation of democracy, promotion of market and social reforms, and Moldova’s integration into European structures. It was created on the basis of the social-political Movement for a Democratic and Prosperous Moldova founded in 1997. In the 1998 parliamentary elections, the movement got 18 percent of the votes or 24 seats in the parliament and acted as part of the Alliance for Democracy and Reforms which formed a 61-seat strong-coalition to counterbalance the left-wing minority of 40 seats of the Party of Moldova’s Communists. In 2000, the Movement for a Democratic and Prosperous Moldova was reorganized into the PDM. An open confrontation between President Petru Lucinschi and Moldova’s parliament, chaired by Dumitru Diacov, resulted in a governmental crisis and led to new parliamentary elections in 2001, in which the PDM could not garner the minimal amount of ballots needed in order to enter the parliament. During the 2005 parliamentary elections, the PDM was part of the Moldova Democrată Electoral Bloc which came in second after the Party of Moldova’s Communists. Soon after the elections, the PDM left the bloc to form a separate fraction in the Moldovan legislature. The party aspires to become a member of the Socialist International, a worldwide organization of social democratic, socialist and labor parties.
General Local Elections 2007
117 mandates in the rayonal and municipal councils (10.43%)
1155 mandates in city and village councils (10.87%)
74 mayor mandates (8.25%)
Parliamentary Elections 2005
34 mandates (28.53% voturi)
General Local Elections 2003
92 mandates in the rayonal and municipal councils (8.17%)
936 mandates in city and village councils (8.63%)
73 mayor mandates (8.13%)
Parliamentary Elections 2001
5.02% didn't pass the threshold of representation
General Local Elections 1999
64 mandates in the rayonal and municipal councils (20.51%)
1214 mandates in city and village councils (19.89%)
93 mayor mandates (14.78%)
Parliamentary Elections 1998
24 mandates (18.16%)
MD-2001, Republica Moldova
Chişinău, str. Tighina 32
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