Today we’re going to take a look at Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu’s new cabinet of ministers. Following the presentation of the government program and vote of confidence on Friday October 31st, the new government was sworn in by President Sandu on November 1st. Speaking on the occasion, the President stated:
“We need a government that prioritizes development, attracting investment, and increasing the competitiveness of the economy. Only then will we be able to improve people’s living standards and strengthen the rule of law,”
Prime Minister Munteanu has made it abundantly clear that his government will prioritize economic development. So who is in this government? and who will be responsible for carrying out this agenda?
The new cabinet has 16 members, 8 of whom are holdovers from the last government and 8 who are new. We’re going to go through each of the 16 members of the cabinet with a brief introduction and, when warranted, a short analysis of what their appointment might signal. This is a lot of information so we’re going to split our article into 2 parts. We’ll cluster them thematically as follows:
Part 1:
Part 2: (Coming later this week)
Cluster 3: Social Welfare
Minister of Education and Research
Minister of Labour and Social Protection
Minister of Health
Minister of Culture
Minister of the Environment
Cluster 4: Power Ministries
Minister of Internal Affairs
Minister of Defence
Minister of Justice
Note 1: The clusters above are my own and don’t reflect an official structure. Also, don’t read too much into the ordering. I’ve chosen to put Deputy Prime Ministers at the top of each section and then to more or less order the others at random.
Note 2: This article is probably not going to fully load in your email (lots of pictures). Just click on the title of the article to open it on the website (or in the Substack app). Also, if you aren’t interested in every ministry, use the links above to jump to the ones that you are most interested in!
Note 3: You’ve probably noticed that the ministry names above are sometimes quite long. In Moldova Matters I typically abbreviate them for simplicity’s sake - e.g. the “Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization” is the Minister of Economy. When strictly necessary I’ll use the full titles in this article, but will mostly try and keep the short form when possible. Sorry for the inevitable occasional confusion.