Monica Babuc

Monica Babuc (born 29 March 1964) is a politician and historian from the Republic of Moldova, who was Minister of Culture of the Republic of Moldova in four consecutive cabinets (Leancă, Gaburici, Streleţ and Filip) from 2013 to 2019.[1]

Monica Babuc
Babuc in 2019
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 9 March 2019 – 23 July 2021
Parliamentary group	Democratic Party
In office 9 December 2014 – 18 February 2015
Succeeded by	Eugeniu Nichiforciuc
Parliamentary group	Democratic Party
Vice President of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 18 June 2019 – 4 December 2020 Serving with Ion Ceban, Mihai Popșoi, Alexandru Slusari and Vlad Batrîncea
President	Igor Dodon
Prime Minister	Maia Sandu Ion Chicu
Preceded by	Vladimir Vitiuc
Succeeded by	Vladimir Vitiuc
Minister of Education, Culture and Research
In office 26 July 2017 – 8 June 2019
President	Igor Dodon
Prime Minister	Pavel Filip
Preceded by	Corina Fusu
Succeeded by	Liliana Nicolaescu-Onofrei
Minister of Culture
In office 30 May 2013 – 26 July 2017
President	Nicolae Timofti Igor Dodon
Prime Minister	Iurie Leancă Chiril Gaburici Natalia Gherman (acting) Valeriu Streleț Gheorghe Brega (acting) Pavel Filip
Preceded by	Boris Focșa
Succeeded by	Sergiu Prodan (2021)
Personal details
Born	(1964-03-29) 29 March 1964 Bardar, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	European Social Democratic Party
Other political affiliations	Alliance for European Integration
Profession	Historian

Monica Babuc is a member of the Democratic Party of Moldova, and formerly a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party.

In May 2015 she submitted his candidacy for the mayoralty of Chișinău.[2] In the televised electoral debates, she admitted that she speaks Romanian and is equally Romanian and Moldovan,[3] contrary to the position and ideology of the DPM leaders, Marian Lupu and Dumitru Diacov, who declare that they speak Moldovan and that they are Moldovans and not Romanian. At the local elections in Chisinau on 14 June 2015 Monica Babuc accrued 2.17% of the vote.