Iurie Roșca (born 31 October 1961) is a Moldovan politician who has served as president of the Christian-Democratic People's Party (PPCD) since 1994.

Biography

Iurie Roșca graduated in 1984 from the journalism faculty of Moldova State University. He then worked as a correspondent for the newspaper Tinerimea Moldovei (The Youth of Moldova), a reporter for the National Television of Moldova, and an upper-level curator at the Dimitrie Cantemir Literature Museum in Chișinău.

Political career

In 1989, Roșca became one of the founders of the Popular Front of Moldova (of which the PPCD is a successor). He was executive president of the organization from 1989 to 1994. Between 1990 and 2009, he was a deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova. In 2005, his party voted for the re-election of the Communist president Vladimir Voronin, and he became the Parliament's vice-president (a post he also held from 1998 to 2001). In June 2009, he was sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister of the Moldovan Government However, he only held that position until September of that year. In summer 2024 Roșca was convicted of influence peddling over the construction of a building and sentenced to six years in prison.