Dumitru Diacov

Dumitru Diacov (born 10 February 1952) is a Moldovan politician, former President of the Moldovan Parliament, member of the Parliament of Moldova in several consecutive terms since the year 2005 and formerly between 1994 and 2001. He was the leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova from 1997 to 2009, when he was succeeded as party chairman by Marian Lupu.

Biography Dumitru Diacov was born on 10 February 1952 in Kargapolye, Kurgan Oblast (Russia), in a family of deportees from Bessarabia. In 1969, he became a student at the Faculty of Letters, Journalism Department, of the Moldova State University from Chișinău. In 1974, Dumitru Diacov graduated from Belarusian State University and then worked for TeleRadio-Moldova. After 1984, he worked as correspondent in Chişinău for Komsomolskaya Pravda and then for Komsomol and CPSU in Moscow (1986–1989). Between 1989 and 1993, he worked for Information Telegraph Agency of Russia in Bucharest.

Dumitru Diacov was a Moldovan MP (1994 – 2001, 2005 - May 2009, July 2009 – 2010) and the president of the Moldovan Parliament (23 April 1998 – 20 March 2001).

His leadership of the Democratic Party of Moldova lasted from 1997 until June 2009, when he was named honorary president. In November 2022, when the Democratic Party was turned into the European Social Democratic Party, he opposed this change and did not join the new party. Due to this, his title of honorary president was revoked.