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Viorel Topa
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Candidate of the “PSD-PSL” Electoral Bloc (Be PSD-PSL) | |
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Engineer-economist, manager |
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Slogans A Modern Mayor for a Modern Town
Vote the New Man, Vote Change, Vote Viorel Topa! Viorel Topa is Our Candidate Vote Viorel Topa! 25 May — Come to vote, we have to elect the Mayor of Chisinau! | |
Election Results
In the first round of elections got 7,809 of the valid votes (3.14%) that is insufficient to enter the runoff elections for mayor of Chisinau.Electoral Ads
Biographical Data
Viorel Topa was born in 1966 in Chisinau. His father, journalist Tudor Topa, served for many years as editor-in-chief of the daily “Moldova Suverana” (Sovereign Moldova). His mother, Ana Topa, worked at the National Library. At present, both parents are pensioners. In 1983 Viorel Topa graduated from the General School No. 1 of Chisinau. In 1990 he was awarded the licence of the Faculty of Industrial Administration Organisation of the Institute of Management of Moscow. He was an intern at the Bank of New-York (USA), Commerzbank (Germany), Austria Bank (Austria) and Midland Bank (Great Britain).He started his career in 1991–1992 at the Commercial Bank “Bessarabia” of Chisinau. In 1992–1994 he was Senior Specialist at the Commercial Bank “Mobiasbank”, in 1994–1996 — Head of Department for External Relations, and in 1996–1999 — Deputy Chairman at the same bank.
In 1999–2001 he was Chairman of the Joint Stock Association Bank of Savings.
Since 2001 he worked in private business.
In 2001 he was nominated as the best bank manager from Eastern Europe by an international audit company. He speaks English and French and his hobbies are football, computers and astronomy.
