Mayor of Chișinău

Mayor of Chişinău

Official seal of Chişinău
Incumbent
Dorin Chirtoacă

since June 18, 2007
Style The Honorable
Appointer Direct popular vote
Term length 4 years
Inaugural holder Anghel Nour, 1817

The Mayor of Chişinău is head of the executive branch of Chişinău City Council.

History

The first mayor of Chişinău was Anghel Nour in 1817. In 1941, the office was abolished. After the Soviet era and the re-establishment of the office in 1990, Nicolae Costin became the first democratically elected mayor.

List of mayors

Mayors of Chişinău:

Mayor From Until Party Pool
Anghel Nour 1817 1821
Dimitrie Lovcinski 1821 1831
Stavru Dimu 1831 1833
Dimitrie Lovcinski 1834 1836
Pantelimon I. Sinadino 1837 1839
Pantelimon I. Sinadino 1840 1842
Dimitrie Lovcinski 1843 1845
Dimitrie Durdufi 1846 1848
Dimitrie Mincu 1849 1854
Anghel Nicolau 1855 1858
Dimitrie Mincu 1858 1860
Dimitrie Mincu 1861 1866
Adam Krijanovski 1867 1869
Pavel Gumalic 1870 1871
Clemente Şumanski 1871 1877
Carol Schmidt 1877 1903
Leopold Siţinski 1904 1905
Pantelimon V. Sinadino 1905 1910
I. Levinski 1910 1917
Alexander Schmidt (son of Carol Schmidt) 1917 1918
Vladimir Hertza 1918 1919
Teodor Cojocaru 1919 1920
I. Levinski 1920 1922
Vasile Bârcă 1922 1923
Gherman Pântea 1923 1923
Nicolae Bivol 1923 1924
Vasile Bârcă 1924 1925
Nicolae Bivol 1925 1926
Sebastian Teodorescu 1926 1927
Gherman Pântea 1927 1928
Ion Negrescu 1928 1931
Constantin Ionescu 1931 1932
Gherman Pântea 1932 1932
Dimitrie Bogos 1932 1933
Ion Costin 1933 1937
Alexandru Sibirski (acting mayor) 1937 1938
Constantin Dardan 1938 1938
Vladimir Cristi 1938 1940 Renaissance Front
Anibal Dobjanski 1941 1941
Nicolae Costin 1990 9 August 1994 Popular Front
Serafim Urechean 9 August 1994 18 April 2005 1995
1999
2003
Mihai Furtună (acting) 18 April 2005 28 April 2005
Vasile Ursu 28 April 2005 25 January 2007 Party of Communists 2005
Veaceslav Iordan 25 January 2007 18 June 2007 Party of Communists
Dorin Chirtoacă 18 June 2007 Liberal Party 2007