Mayor of Chișinău

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The Mayor of Chișinău, officially the General Mayor of the Municipality of Chișinău (Romanian: Primar general al municipiul Chișinău), is the head of the executive branch of Chișinău's government and a member of the city's Municipal Council.

Mayor of Chișinău
Primarul general al municipiului Chișinău
Incumbent
Ion Ceban
since 11 November 2019
StyleMr. Mayor
SeatChișinău
AppointerDirect popular vote
Term length4 years
Inaugural holderAnghel Nour
Websitechisinau.md
Chișinău City Hall, Central Chișinău
Chișinău City Hall around 1900
Carol Schmidt

History

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The first mayor of Chișinău was Anghel Nour in 1817. In 1941, the office was abolished. After the end of the Soviet era and the re-establishment of the office in 1990, Nicolae Costin became the first democratically elected mayor.

List of mayors

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Throughout the passing of time, the mayors of the city of Chișinău have been the following ones:

Russian Empire

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Mayor From Until Notes
1 Anghel Nour 1817 1821 First mayor of the city
2 Dimitrie Lovcinski 1821 1831
3 Stavru Dimu 1831 1833
(2) Dimitrie Lovcinski 1834 1836 Second time serving as mayor
4 Pantelimon I. Sinadino 1837 1839
1840 1842 Second time serving as mayor
(2) Dimitrie Lovcinski 1843 1845 Second time serving as mayor
5 Dimitrie Durdufi 1846 1848
6 Dimitrie Mincu 1849 1854
7 Anghel Nicolau 1855 1858
(6) Dimitrie Mincu 1858 1860 Second time serving as mayor
1861 1866 Third time serving as mayor
8 Adam Krijanovski 1867 1869
9 Pavel Gumalic 1870 1871
10 Clemente Șumanski 1871 1877
11 Carol Schmidt 1877 1903 First ethnic German mayor of the city (more specifically Bessarabian German)
12 Leopold Siținski 1904 1905
13 Pantelimon V. Sinadino 1905 1910 National Liberal Party (PNL)
14 Iulian Levinski 1910 1917

Moldavian Democratic Republic

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Mayor From Until Notes
15 Alexander Schmidt 1917 1918 Second ethnic German mayor of the city (more specifically Bessarabian German), son of Carol Schmidt

Kingdom of Romania

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Mayor From Until Notes
16 Vladimir Herța 1918 1919 National Liberal Party (PNL)
17 Teodor Cojocaru 1919 1920
(14) Iulian Levinski 1920 1922 Second time serving as mayor
18 Vasile Bârcă 1922 1923 National Liberal Party (PNL)
19 Gherman Pântea 1923 1923
20 Nicolae Bivol 1923 1924
(18) Vasile Bârcă 1924 1925
(20) Nicolae Bivol 1925 1926
21 Sebastian Teodorescu 1926 1927
(19) Gherman Pântea 1927 1928 National Liberal Party (PNL)
22 Ion Negrescu 1928 1931
23 Constantin Ionescu 1931 1932
(19) Gherman Pântea 1932 1932 National Liberal Party (PNL)
24 Dimitrie Bogos 1932 1933 National Peasants' Party (PNȚ)
25 Ion Costin 1933 1937
Alexandru Sibirski (acting/ad interim) 1937 1938 Acting mayor
26 Constantin Dardan 1938 1938
27 Reindhold Scheibler 1938 1938 Third ethnic German (more specifically Bessarabian German) mayor of the city
28 Vladimir Cristi 1938 1940 National Liberal Party (PNL)
29 Anibal Dobjanski 1941 1941 Bessarabian Polish

Moldavian SSR

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Chairmen of the Chișinău City Executive Committee.

Chairman From Until Party
1 Nicolae Vizitei 1944 1946 Moldavian Communist Party
under the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)
2 Dmitry Smirnov 1946 1950
3 Konstantin Sablin 1950 1953
4 Anatoly Maryutin 1953 1955 Communist Party of Moldavia
under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
5 Boris Tanashevsky 1955 1959
6 Macar Godoba 1959 1961
7 Mihail Dieur 1961 1966
8 Anatoly Damaskin 1966 1970
9 Ivan Kuskevich 1970 1973
10 Vladimir Zakharov 1973 1975
11 Nicolae Uzun 1975 1981
12 Vladimir Semyonov 1981 1985
13 Mihail Platon 1985 1987
14 Ion Guțu 1987 1989
15 Vladimir Dobrea 1989 1990
16 Mihai Severovan 1990

Republic of Moldova

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Mayor From Until Party Election
30 Nicolae Costin 1990 9 August 1994 Popular Front (FPM)
31 Serafim Urechean 9 August 1994 18 April 2005 Our Moldova Alliance/Liberal Democratic Party (AMN/PLDM) 1995
1999
2003
Mihai Furtună (acting/ad interim) 18 April 2005 28 April 2005 Independent
Vasile Ursu (acting/ad interim) 28 April 2005 25 January 2007 Party of Communists (PCRM) 2005
Veaceslav Iordan (acting/ad interim) 25 January 2007 18 June 2007 Party of Communists (PCRM)
32 Dorin Chirtoacă 18 June 2007 28 July 2017 Liberal Party (PL) 2007
2011
2015
Nistor Grozavu (acting/ad interim) 4 August 2017 6 November 2017 Liberal Party (PL)
Silvia Radu (acting/ad interim) 6 November 2017 25 April 2018 Independent
Ruslan Codreanu (acting/ad interim) 25 April 2018 4 July 2019 European People's Party (PPEM)
Adrian Talmaci (acting/ad interim) 4 July 2019 8 October 2019 Liberal Party (PL)
33 Andrei Năstase 8 October 2019 10 October 2019 Dignity and Truth Platform Party (PPDA) 2018
Adrian Talmaci (acting/ad interim) 10 October 2019 4 November 2019 Liberal Party (PL)
(33) Andrei Năstase 4 November 2019 5 November 2019 Dignity and Truth Platform Party (PPDA)
Adrian Talmaci (acting/ad interim) 5 November 2019 11 November 2019 Liberal Party (PL)
34 Ion Ceban 11 November 2019 present Party of Socialists (PSRM) 2019

See also

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