Activity of the President on December 16–31, 2010

Events of great importance

Marian Lupu is interim President

As the 19^th legislature was convoked for the constituting sitting, the mandate of interim president held by former speaker Mihai Ghimpu ran off on December 28, 2010. The interim office was taken over later by the acting prime minister and starting December 30, 2010 it went to the Parliament Speaker Marian Lupu.

Vlad Filat runs for the office of prime minister

On December 31, 2010, the acting president of Moldova signed the decree nominating Vladimir Filat as candidate to the office of prime minister, giving him green light to work out an action programme and list of the Government and table them to the parliament before January 14, 2011.

Decrees

Last decrees by Mihai Ghimpu

On the last days of his mandate as acting president of Moldova, Mihai Ghimpu signed several decrees:

To convoke the newly-elected Parliament in the constituting sitting on December 28, 2010;
To award the “Order of Honour” to six Chisinau-based high schools: “Mihai Viteazul”; “Gheorghe Asachi”; “Spiru Haret”; “Mihai Eminescu”; “Mihail Berezovschi” and “Ion Creanga”;
To award the Moldovan citizenship to several persons, including Traian-Catalin Giosan (Romanian citizen, manager of PRO TV channel);
To award the “Order of the Republic” to Mrs. Zinovia Chiorascu, mother of several children; folk music singer Nicolae Glib; National Folk Music Orchestra “Lautarii”;
To award the general-major ranking to Deputy Interior Minister Iurie Cheptanaru; deputy SIS director Valentin Dediu, and Vadim Cojocaru, director-general of the Department of Penitentiary Institutions of the Ministry of Justice;
To accept the resignation of certain advisors for the interim president: Victor Captari, advisor for political affairs; Vitalie Caraus, advisor for culture, education and science; Dan-Gheorghe Dungaciu, advisor for European integration; Vladimir Lupan, advisor for foreign policy; Iurie Stratulat, advisor for agro-industrial complex and public administration; Victor Sula, advisor for economic affairs; Lilian Salaru, advisor for special missions; Constantin Turcan, advisor for social development, and Valeriu Rusu, spokesperson for the Moldovan presidential administration.

Note by ADEPT: Under Article 21 of the law concerning the status of the personnel from the cabinet of public officials, if dismissed when the mandate of official is over, the personnel from the cabinet of public officials who was not appointed to the new cabinet receives a single indemnity equivalent to 6 average monthly wages (a monthly salary is equivalent to 6,500 lei).

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