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President of the Moldovan Parliament

Presiding officer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ4376680 ↗
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The president of the parliament of Moldova (Romanian: Președintele Parlamentului) is the presiding officer of the parliament of Moldova. The current president of the Parliament is Igor Grosu since 29 July 2021.

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Moldavian Democratic Republic

Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Chairmen of the Central Executive Committee of the Moldavian ASSR:

Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic

Source:

Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR:

Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR:

Parliament of the Republic of Moldova

On 5 June 1990, the Moldavian SSR (RSS Moldovenească) changed its name to Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova (RSS Moldova). Subsequently, on 23 May 1991 it adopted the name Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova).

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This entry incorporates text from “President of the Moldovan Parliament” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.