Vladimir Bolea

Vladimir Bolea (born 23 September 1971) is a Moldovan politician and meritocrat currently serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development in the Recean Cabinet.^[1]

Vladimir Bolea
Bolea in 2024
Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 February 2023 Serving with Mihai Popșoi Doina Nistor
President	Maia Sandu
Prime Minister	Dorin Recean
Preceded by	Andrei Spînu
Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 November 2024
President	Maia Sandu
Prime Minister	Dorin Recean
Preceded by	Andrei Spînu
Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry
In office 8 July 2022 – 19 November 2024
President	Maia Sandu
Prime Minister	Natalia Gavrilița Dorin Recean
Preceded by	Viorel Gherciu
Succeeded by	Ludmila Catlabuga
Acting Minister of Environment
In office 7 October 2022 – 16 November 2022
President	Maia Sandu
Prime Minister	Natalia Gavrilița
Preceded by	Iuliana Cantaragiu
Succeeded by	Rodica Iordanov
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 9 March 2019 – 29 July 2022
Succeeded by	Vasile Porțevschi
Parliamentary group	Party of Action and Solidarity
Constituency	Chișinău
Majority	11,058 (41.5%)
Personal details
Born	(1971-09-23) 23 September 1971 (age 53) Carabetovca, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Party of Action and Solidarity
Alma mater	Moldova State University

Early life

Bolea was born on 23 September 1971 in Carabetovca, then part of the Moldavian SSR.^[2][3] From 1989 to 1991 he studied at the Leningrad Higher Military Political School of Air Defense in the Russian SFSR.^[4] Returning to Moldova, from 1991 to 1997 he then studied at the State University of Moldova for a license in history, while at the same time completing his license in law from 1994 to 1997.^[5] He started working in 2001 as director of S.C. PATIPTODCOM S.R.L. in Chișinău, which he served as director of until 2015. From 2001 to 2002 he returned to the State University of Moldova, receiving his Master's degree's in economic law.^[4] Meanwhile, he was also an instructor in economics at the School of Advanced Studies in Journalism from 2012 to 2019, and Director of SC GFC HOLBOCA SRL from 2013 to 2019.^[5]

Political career

Bolea joined the Party of Action and Solidarity in 2019.^[5] He ran in the 2019 Moldovan parliamentary election as a representative of the political alliance NOW Platform DA and PAS in Constituency No. 27, defeating Radu Mudreac by around 7% percent.^[6] After serving as Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, he was chosen as Agriculture Minister by Maia Sandu, and was sworn in on 8 July 2022, replacing Viorel Gherciu.^[7] In November 2024 it was announced that he would leave the position as Minister of Agriculture to take over the Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development, a position that had remained vacant since Andrei Spînu's resignation.^[8]