The final head of Soviet Moldavia's Communist Party
He called the 1991 banning of the Communist Party “an illegitimate act.”
Grigore Eremei was a Moldavian party and state official whose career reached its decisive moment at the end of the Soviet system. As First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia in 1991, he occupied the republic's leading party post while the Union was breaking apart and Moldova moved toward independence. After the party was dissolved, he continued in public life as a Moldovan diplomat and parliamentarian, linking a Soviet political career to the institutions of the independent republic.
Career Timeline
- 1952Began working as a village secondary-school librarian
- 1954–1956Served in the Soviet Army
- 1966–1970First Secretary of the Kotovsk district party committee
- 1970–1980Deputy and First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Moldavian SSR
- 1980–1990Chairman of the Moldavian republican council of trade unions
- 1989–1991People's Deputy of the USSR
- 1991First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia and member of the CPSU Politburo
- 1994–1998Moldovan Ambassador to Romania
The Soviet Politburo
- Full member 1991.04–1991.08
served until the party ban of 1991.11