Constituency no.49 East Diaspora holds 27 polling stations in 11 countries: Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, the United Arab Emirates, Georgia, Israel, Japan, Qatar, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. The candidate polling most votes takes the constituency regardless of the voter turnout.
The first listed on the ballot is Democrat Party’s Ina Sîrbu, a constructions engineer and teacher of biology & chemistry by training. She graduated from the Tiraspol Pedagogic Institute. After six years of teaching, she went into the private sector to become a meneger. Sîrbu worked for a period as a researcher at the Moldovan Academy of Sciences. Then she went on to work at the Moldovan Embassy in Moscow. Since 2015 she has specialized on labor migration matters in Russia. The candidate hasn’t declared any income for the last two years. She owns an apartment.
The second is the Socialist Party’s Gheorghi Para, manager and professor. He chairs the Builders Labor Union in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg and the Moldovan community in the same city. In the last two years, the candidate and his wife earned incomes of over 1.6 million rubles and 152,000 lei. The candidate also earned 600,000 rubles for teaching at the St Petersburg University. In addition, the family sold an apartment and a car for 5.5 million rubles. The candidate’s family owns two land plots, two apartments, a house and two cars.
The third is Our Party’s Nicolae Țipovici, an engineer and manager, currently running his own farming business. The candidate is the party’s vice president and a Chisinau councilman. In the last two years, Țipovici earned over 339,000 lei in profits from his farming business specializing in seed production. The candidate also declared 50,000 euros in donations and an income of 450,000 lei from selling acar. The Țipovicis also earned 63,000 in councilman fees and child care benefits. The candidate owns five building lots, an apartment and two cars.
The fourth is Shor Party’s Valeri Klimenko, chairman of the Congress of Moldova’s Russian Communities. The candidate became the party’s honorary president after his own political movement Ravnopravie became the platform on which Shor Party was created. In the last two years Klimenko and his wife had incomes of 49,000 lei and 142,000 lei pensions. The couple owns two agricultural plots, two apartments and two cars.
Next comes NOW’s Dorin Frăsîneanu, lawyer and politologist. The 26-year-old earned a master’s degree in political and administrative studies from the Belgian Collège d’Europe, one in political sciences from the Russian МГИМО and another one in European and international law from the French Université de Strasbourg. He works as a junior consultant at the European Centre for Government Transformation. In the last two years, he earned 15,000 lei and over £5,000 in salary income, and a ten-month €26,000 scholarship.
The sixth is the independent candidate Dumitru Pogorea, a constructions engineer running his individual enterprise. He chairs the National cultural Center “Luceafărul” in Novosibirsk. For the last two years, Pogorea declared 175 million rubles in income from construction activities. He had an additional income of 6.5 million rubles from selling assets and property, and his wife declared 800,000 rubles from selling an apartment. The couple owns eight building lots, an apartment, a house and a car.
The final spot on the ballot is occupied by independent Igor Ticuș, an economist by training. He is director of the Moscow-based Radio Moldova Mea. His last two years’ declaration discloses incomes of 1,000 lei. The candidate owns offices, a $75,000 car, and co-owns an apartment.
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The rubric “Know your candidates!” presents competitors running in each single-member constituency in order of the slot assigned on the ballot.