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Which political party did Marian Lupu belong to in Jun 1988?
Marian Lupu Marian Lupu ( ; born 20 June 1966 ) is a Moldovan politician who was the President of the Parliament of Moldova between 2010 and 2013 . From this position he served as Acting President of the Republic from 2010 until 2012 . Personal life . Marian Lupu was born on 20 June 1966 in Bălţi . When Marian was six , the family moved to Chişinău . His father , Ilie Lupu ( b . 1938 ) , was a mathematics professor at the Moldova State University . His mother taught French language at the Nicolae Testemiţanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy . He had been a member of Komsomol from 1980 until 1988 and a Member of Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1988 to 1991 . Until 1983 , Lupu studied at Gheorghe Asachi High School of Chişinău . He studied Economics at Moldova State University ( until 1987 ) and at Plekhanov Moscow Institute of the National Economy ( 1987–1991 ) in Moscow where he obtained his PhD in Economics . Lupu also attended stages at the Institute of the International Monetary Fund in Washington , D.C . ( 1994 ) and World Trade Organization in Geneva ( 1996 ) . Besides speaking his native Moldovan ( Romanian ) , Lupu speaks English , French , and Russian . Lupu was married in 1992 and has two children , Alexandra and Cristian . Political career . He was named as Vice Minister of the Economy in the new Communist Tarlev cabinet in June 2001 . Two years later in August 2003 , Lupu was promoted to full Minister of the Economy ( 5 August 2003 - 24 March 2005 ) . After the Communists won re-election in 2005 , Lupu was once again promoted , this time as Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament . Marian Lupu was Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament from March 2005 to May 2009 . But in December 2008 , Lupu was not included by president Vladimir Voronin in the composition of the Supreme Security Council . Lupu was a high-ranking member of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova and was considered to be a leading candidate to become the next Prime Minister after Zinaida Greceanîi stepped down ; however , shortly before the second ( unsuccessful ) attempt to elect the next president on 3 June 2009 , he left the PCRM , stating that it was not possible to reform the PCRM from within . Subsequently , he was offered membership and even leadership in the Democratic Party of Moldova , which had not cleared the electoral threshold in the first elections in 2009 . After July 2009 parliamentary election , alongside Vlad Filat , Mihai Ghimpu , and Serafim Urechean , Marian Lupu signed the Alliance For European Integration in a press-conference on 8 August 2009 . He was the candidate of the Alliance For European Integration for President of Moldova up until the election of current president Nicolae Timofti on 16 March 2012 . On 25 April 2013 Marian Lupu was sacked from position of President of Moldovan Parliament with 76 of 101 votes ( communists , liberal-democrats , socialists and some liberal-reformators ) . Political views . Language and identity . In controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova , Marian Lupu identifies himself as Moldovan ethnic and supported retention of Moldovan language in Constitution as state language of Moldova . Though in 2010 , in TV talk-show În profunzime on ProTV Chișinău , Marian Lupu stated : From scientifical point of view I speak Romanian , from political point of view - Moldovan!” . After two years , in the same talk-show Lupu stated : I changed my mind . Scientifically is not Romanian anymore , as I said previously , but Moldovan [ language ] .” Lupu supports idea of existence of the Moldovan people and Moldovan nation and the idea that Moldova is a distinct entity apart from Romania . Others . In 2010 Lupu stated that It is a pride for Moldova that its soldiers marched on the Red Square” in the 2010 Moscow Victory Day Parade , going against other politicians who criticized the presence of the Moldovan National Armys Honor Guard Company . External links . - Moldovas turncoat president ?