page_title: Vladimir Voronin
section_title: Second mandate
hierarchical_section_title: Vladimir Voronin / Presidential career / Second mandate
caption_attribution_description: English: BARVIKHA, MOSCOW REGION. Talks with President of Moldova Vladimir Voronin, and Igor Smirnov, head of Transdniester.Русский: МОСКОВСКАЯ ОБЛАСТЬ, БАРВИХА. Переговоры с Президентом Молдавии Владимиром Ворониным и главой Приднестровья Игорем Смирновым.
context_page_description: Vladimir Voronin is a Moldovan politician. He was the third President of Moldova from 2001 until 2009 and has been the First Secretary of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova since 1994. He was Europe's first democratically elected communist party head of state after the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc.
context_section_description: In the parliamentary election in March 2005, the PCRM received 46.1% of the vote and won 56 seats in the 101-member Parliament — more than enough for the 51-vote minimum required to remain in government, but short of the 61 votes necessary to elect a president. However, President Voronin received the necessary support from the Christian Democratic People's Party, the Democratic and Social Liberal factions, after he promised to deliver on needed reforms and Euro-Atlantic integration for the country. (The latter two factions broke away from the Electoral Bloc "Moldova Democrată" following the election, leaving the Our Moldova Alliance (AMN) of the former Mayor of Chişinău Serafim Urechean as the second-largest party in Parliament, with 26 seats.) In the presidential election held in Parliament on April 4, 2005, Voronin was re-elected with 75 votes; another candidate, Gheorghe Duca, received one vote, and two votes were invalid.
caption: Voronin at a meeting with Medvedev and Smirnov in Barvikha on 18 February 2009, at which Transnistria  issues were discussed.
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