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.

Ruslan Codreanu is running for the post of mayor general of the municipality of Chisinau on behalf of the Electoral Bloc “Ruslan Codreanu”, which consists of the People Power Party that he leads and the Political Party “Christian-Social Union of Moldova” which is managed by ex-minister Valeriu Pleșca.

Ruslan Codreanu was born on October 15, 1980. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in the history and economy of the European Union from the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (1998-2002). He also has an executive master’s degree in public management from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany (2013-2014).

In 2004-2008, he served at the Ministry of Economy and Trade as senior specialist and also as head of the Division of Economic Adjustments in the European Integration Process. In 2008-2015, he worked for the State Chancellery, including as division head.

Before founding his own party, Ruslan Codreanu took part in the founding in 2015 of the European People’s Party of Moldova (EPPM), led by ex-Premier Iurie Leancă. The same year, he was elected EPPM councilor on the Chisinau Municipal Council.

In November 2017, he was named deputy mayor of Chisinau municipality on social issues. Since April 2018 until July 2019, he served as acting mayor general.

In September 2019, Ruslan Codreanu was investigated over the purchase of 31 buses for Chisinau. The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office remitted the case to the Investigation Division of the General Police Inspectorate. Acceding to officials of the Inspectorate, the criminal case was started over the deed, not against a person. At present, Ruslan Codreanu is not featured in this case somehow.

Ruslan Codreanu wanted to run for mayor of Chisinau in the local elections of the autumn of 2019. But the District Electoral Council refused to register him as a contender after invalidating 1,200 of the 10,454 signatures presented by Codreanu.

In March 2021, he founded the People Power Party and in July this party competed in the snap parliamentary elections, gaining 0.11% of the ballot or 1,613 votes.

For January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022, Ruslan Codreanu and his wife declared incomes totaling over 122,000 lei. In 2014, he purchased an apartment that is about 91 square meters in area, for 674,000 lei. He also owns two motor vehicles – a car made in 2007 to the value of 80,600 lei and a car made in 2013 to the value of 200,000 lei.

“I suggest turning a city suffocated by traffic, polluted, robbed, impoverished, with failed enterprises and sick into a developed, clean, healthy Chisinau in which all the people would want to live, in which our children would grow healthily and in a balanced way, in which entrepreneurs would start and manage businesses, in which the older persons would want to grow old agreeably, while the young students would have jobs and would want to stay,” Ruslan Codreanu stated when he announced his intention to run for the mayoralty of Chisinau.

As the draw decided, Ruslan Codreanu, of the Electoral Bloc “Ruslan Codreanu”, will be under No. 2 on the ballot.