Grigore Mărăcuţă

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Grigore Mărăcuţă (Russian: Григóрий Степáнович Маракуца / Grigorii Stepanovich Marakutsa) (born 15 October 1942 in Teia, Grigoriopol district) is a Transnistrian politician and member of Transnistria's parliament.

He is a member of the Respublika party, which is allied with the president and which suffered a defeat in the 11 December 2005 parliamentary election. Although he retained his seat, his party lost its former majority position in parliament and he had to step down from his previous post as Speaker of Parliament. Today, that post is held by opposition politician Yevgeni Shevchuk from the Renewal (Obnovleniye) party.

Grigore Mărăcuţă is an ethnic Moldavian.

Mărăcuţă was instrumental in the declaration of independence of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic on September 2, 1990. He has held high leadership positions in Transnistria since that date. He is also one of the politicians in Transnistria with past experience as a Communist politician.