The article forms part of IPN’s information campaign that presents biographical data, information about the incomes and property and professional experience of candidates for mayor general of the municipality of Chisinau.
Ion Purice is contending for the post of mayor general of the municipality of Chisinau on behalf of the Liberal Party that is led by Mihai Ghimpu. He is the deputy chairman of the party.
The candidate was born on April 24, 1987.
In 1994-2003, he studied at the secondary school in Cobani village of Glodeni district. In 2006, he graduated from the Theoretical Lyceum in the same locality. Until 2012, he studied at “Nicolae Testemiţanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, the specialty of public health doctor. In 2012-2014, he studied for a postgraduate degree at the same University, the specialty of hygienist. He also studied for his doctorate and is to defend his doctoral thesis in medical science.
In 2012-2013, he served as an assistant to the hygienist at the de National Public Health Center, while in 2013-2014 – as a hygienist at the same institution.
Since 2015, for two years, he worked as an assistant to an MP. In 2017, he returned to the health system as medical vice director of Clinical Municipal Hospital No. 4. As from December 2022, he has managed the Cărpineni Hospital. He filled the post after winning a contest staged by the Ministry of Health.
For last year, the candidate declared over 244,000 salaries as vice director of Clinical Municipal Hospital No. 4 and over 9,000 lei salaries as director of the Cărpineni Hospital. He wife collected 45,800 lei in child benefit. In 2016, his wife was donated an agricultural lot to the value of over 9,600 lei. In 2020, the candidate purchased a car made in 2005 for 100,000 lei.
Ion Purice promised to implement the Our Yard program to rehabilitate and build sidewalks in front of apartment buildings and to set up playgrounds in yards, to employ only persons who know and speak Romanian, regardless of ethnicity, at the Chisinau City Hall and the subordinate institutions, to continue the projects to thermally insulate schools, kindergartens and hospitals initiated by ex-mayor Dorin Chirtoacă, to develop infrastructure in the suburban settlements, etc.
The candidate considers himself a unionist and a patriot of the Romanian nation.
As it was decided by draw, Ion Purice of the Liberal Party will be next to No. 21 on the ballot.
