Maia Sandu, the current President of the Republic of Moldova, has entered the race for a new mandate. The Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) backed her. She founded this party in 2016. She was born on May 24, 1972, in the Risipeni village, Faleshti district. She is unmarried and has no children. She speaks Romanian, Russian, English and Spanish.
She graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova, Faculty of Management in 1994. From 1995 to 1998, she studied at the Academy of Public Administration in Chisinau, obtaining a Master’s degree in International Relations. In 2010, Maia Sandu obtained a Master’s in Public Policy after completing her studies at the Kennedy School of Public Administration at Harvard University, USA.
Maia Sandu lived abroad. There, she served as an advisor to the Executive Director of the World Bank. Later, she returned to Moldova, where she was appointed Minister of Education between 2012 and 2015 in three consecutive governments – Filat, Leanca, and Gaburici. From February until June 2019, she was a member of the Moldovan Parliament on behalf of the “ACUM DA Platform and PAS” Electoral Bloc, a political alliance between two pro-European parties. In June 2019, Sandu was appointed the country’s Prime Minister, a mandate she held until November 2019. She was sworn in as President of the Republic of Moldova on December 20, 2020, after winning the second round of the presidential elections on November 15, 2020.
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In the declaration of wealth and personal interests, filed for 2023, Maia Sandu indicated that she collected a little over 260,000 lei salary from the presidential institution and over 95,000 lei for traveling abroad. She owns an apartment of about 75 square meters, purchased in 2003. She has no agricultural land or cars. But she reported selling a car for €8,000.
Maia Sandu_declarația de Avere by Realitatea.md
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