Date of Birth: May 25, 1941. Moldavia.
Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Food Science, Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee and the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR.
From 1961 to 1971 - head of the bakery, director Dubossarsky plant.
He has held various economic and political posts.
In 1985-1998 he. - First Secretary of Party Committee in the town of Bender.
In 1989-1990 - Minister of Internal Affairs of Moldova.
In 1993 he became co-chairman of the organizing committee for the establishment of the Communist Party.
In 1994 - first secretary of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM).
In 1998-2001, he led the PCRM faction in parliament.
A presidential candidate in the general elections of 1996 and in elections in the Parliament in December 2000.
April 4, 2001 Elected President of the Republic of Moldova.
After the election,
Voronin expressed his desire to participate more actively in the CIS and Russia, in particular.
April 22, 2001 elected chairman of the Communist Party.
In June 2001, said that Chisinau "unilaterally withdrawing its peacekeeping posts" with the administrative border with Transnistria
. June 29, 2001 stated that the Republic moves towards European Union.
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