Octavian Ticu has registered for the presidential elections with support from the “Together” Bloc, which includes the “DA” Platform, the League of Cities and Communes, and the Party of Change, as confirmed by the Central Electoral Commission. Ticu was born on August 21, 1972, in the village of Costuleni in the Ungheni district. He is a historian and professional boxer, is married, and has one child. According to press reports, he speaks Romanian, Russian and English.
He studied at the University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” in Iasi, Romania, where he did his bachelor’s and doctorate. He returned to Moldova, where he began teaching history and philosophy at the State University of Moldova. According to Mr. Ticu, he has taught in seven countries, including Austria and the United States. He has been a professor at the Free International University of Moldova and head of department at the Faculty of History and International Relations. In 2008, he also served as a member of the Board of Experts in the East-East Program: Partnership Beyond Borders, Soros Foundation Moldova. In the same year, he was an expert in policy analysis at the Institute for Development and Social Initiatives “Viitorul.” He was the director of the Institute of History and Political Science at ULIM from 2009 to 2010. From 2011 to 2013, he served as a member of the National Board of the Soros Moldova Foundation.
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Octavian Ticu was Minister of Youth and Sport in the Filat Government. In 2015, he joined the initiative group to form the European People’s Party of Moldova. In the general local elections of June 14, 2015, he was elected as a district councilor in Ungheni on behalf of the Electoral Bloc “European People’s Platform of Moldova – Iurie Leanca.” A few months later, Ticu left the party. It was only in 2018 that he became involved in founding the National Resistance Movement and the “ACUM” Electoral Bloc. In February 2019, he became a member of the Moldovan Parliament on the “ACUM” Bloc list. He also ran in the local elections in Chisinau in 2019, where he obtained only 5%. After receiving a low score, he was elected president of the National Unity Party and ran in the 2020 presidential elections, securing 2% of the vote. As of December 2021, he retired from the leadership of the PUN and Moldovan politics, returning to academic and research activities. The press has reported that since October 2023, Ticu has been a professor at the University of Bucharest, where he teaches the university course “Holocaust and Gulag in the History of Europe.”
According to the wealth declaration filed with the CEC, Ticu earned just over 36,000 lei in salary from the Institute of History at USM in 2023 and 75,000 lei from ULIM. The politician also got 37,757 lei from the League of Librarians, Litera Publishing House, University of Bucharest. In 2023, the candidate nominated by the “Together” Bloc sold real estate for which he received 739,530 lei. Mr. Ticu owns a Ford Focus car worth more than 200,000 lei. The Ticu family has two bank accounts, one in lei in Moldova and another in euro in Romania. They hold 51,000 lei and 8,224 euros.
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