Vasile Bolea

Vasile Bolea (born 27 October 1982) is a Moldovan politician, jurist and former rugby player, who was a member in the Parliament of Moldova from 2014 to 2025, elected on the list of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM). Since 2019, he has been the chairman of the Legal, Appointments and Immunities Committee of the Parliament and is the secretary of the PSRM faction in the Parliament.

Before getting involved in politics, Vasile Bolea was a professional rugby player. Throughout his sports career, he played as a right-back, left-back, and also in the second line. He also played rugby sevens, being a starter in the Moldovan team that achieved its greatest international performance – the bronze medal at the 2007 European Championship.

Sports career Bolea began his rugby career with the Chișinău teams, then was selected for the Moldovan national team. After a while, he transferred to the Ukrainian team Aviator Kiev, with which in three years he won three medals in the Ukrainian championship, one bronze and two silver.

Political career In the fall of 2012, Vasile Bolea, together with Vlad Batrîncea and Grigore Novac, filed a petition with the Chișinău Court of Appeal (on behalf of the "Soluția" Foundation) regarding the removal of the memorial stone in memory of the victims of the Soviet occupation installed in the Great National Assembly Square. The court then ruled that the petition filed against the Chișinău City Hall was unfounded. In the summer of 2014, while the signing of the Association and Free Trade Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union was taking place in Brussels, representatives of the Party of Socialists, led by Vasile Bolea and deputy Ion Ceban, organized a protest in front of the headquarters of the European Commission in Chișinău, chanting anti-European messages and advocating for the organization of a referendum on this issue in the Republic of Moldova.

On 19 May 2015, communist councilors in the Chișinău Municipal Council announced during a press conference that they would ask their colleagues in the PCRM parliamentary faction for help in withdrawing the parliamentary immunity of deputies Anatolie Labuneț, Grigore Novac, Ion Ceban, Vasile Bolea, and Marina Radvan, after they, together with several PSRM councilors and elected officials, caused fights at the Chișinău City Hall meeting and on a construction site in Chișinău.