Stella Gherman | |
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Member of Parliament for Briceni | |
In office 2005–2009 | |
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Born | Slobozia-Șirăuți, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union | 18 January 1974
Political party | PCRM |
Stella Ion Gherman (born 18 January 1974) is a Moldovan physicist and politician who served in the Parliament of Moldova from 2005 until 2009 as a member of the Party of Communists.
Stella Gherman was born on 18 January 1974 in the village of Slobozia-Șirăuți in the far northwest of Moldova. A physicist by training, she worked as a physics teacher, and at some point served as mayor of Slobozia-Șirăuți. [1] [2]
In the 2005 Moldovan parliamentary election, Gherman was elected to the Parliament of Moldova as a member of the Party of Communists. [2] While in parliament, she served as secretary of the Commission for Culture, Science, Education, Youth, Sports and Mass Media. [1] In 2006 and 2007, she was a member of the European Union-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, [3] [4] and she served on several Parliamentary Friendship Groups, most notably the groups for the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, and the Baltic states. [5] As a member of the Baltic friendship group, Gherman was part of a 2007 delegation to Latvia. She left parliament at the end of her term in 2009. [6]
Gherman ran again for parliament in the 2019 election, but was defeated. [7]
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