Iurie Muntean

Iurie Muntean is a Moldovan politician, who served as a deputy Minister of Economy and Trade and member of the Parliament of Moldova.

Biography

Muntean graduated from Moldova State University in 1994. He worked as a jurist for the Ministry of Economy, ARIA, the office of lawyers "Justil Group". He then served as a deputy of Igor Dodon. In March 2001, Muntean participated with journalists Constantin Tănase, Aneta Grosu, and the folk music singer Maria Sarabaş in a Romanian-Moldovan delegation to Atlanta, where he danced "Hora Unirii", which is contrary to his party's anti-unionist ideology. Muntean, however, denies having danced Hora Unirii.
Muntean served as the executive secretary of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova since 2010. He was at one point a favourite to succeed Vladimir Voronin as the head of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova.
In the summer of 2014, Muntean was excluded from the PCRM Executive Committee, then from the position of party executive secretary, and on 23 December 2014 he would be definitively excluded from the Communist Party. About his exclusion from the party, he later said "I was excluded from PCRM for leftist views... although I am a true third-generation communist."
Known for his strong Moldovenist position, Muntean appeared in public at some rallies in a T-shirt that had inscribed on it Еу сынт молдован! Еу грэеск молдовенеште!. His brother Ivan Muntean is the leader of the obstastie association "I am Moldovan, I speak Moldovan".
In 2019, together with Mark Tkaciuk, he founded the Collective Action Party – Civic Congress.