- Vasile Tarlev
Infobox Prime Minister
name = Vasile Petru Tarlev
order =Prime Minister of Moldova
term_start =19 April 2001
term_end =31 March 2008
president =Vladimir Voronin
deputy =
predecessor =Dumitru Braghiş
successor =Zinaida Greceanîi
birth_date = birth date and age|1963|10|06|df=y
birth_place =Başcalia ,Moldova
death_date =
death_place =
party =
spouse =
religion =
nicknames =Vasile Petru Tarlev ( _bg. Василе Петру Тарлев; _ru. Василий Павлович Тарлев) (born
October 6 ,1963 ) is aMoldova n politician, and wasPrime Minister of Moldova from 2001 until 2008. He studied engineering and became a member of assorted economic councils. He was appointed Prime Minister onApril 19 ,2001 .Tarlev is ethnically a
Bessarabian Bulgarian and was born inBaşcalia ,Raionul Basarabeasca .He resigned on
March 19 2008 in an unexpected move, saying that he wanted to make way for "new people". Parliament approved his resignation onMarch 20 , and PresidentVladimir Voronin proposedZinaida Greceanîi as his successor; [ [http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12501114&PageNum=0 "Moldova’s Voronin submits PM candidacy to parliament"] , ITAR-TASS, March 21, 2008.] she was approved by Parliament on31 March 2008 . [ [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/31/europe/EU-POL-Moldova-New-Government.php "Moldova's Parliament approves new government"] , Associated Press ("International Herald Tribune"), March 31, 2008.]References
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