Ion Costaș (born 22 February 1944) is a Moldovan military officer and a former minister of interior (1990–1992) and Defence (1992).
Ion Costaș | |
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.jpg) Costaș in 2016 | |
| 1st Minister of Defense | |
| In office 5 February 1992 – 29 July 1992 | |
| President | Mircea Snegur |
| Prime Minister | Valeriu Muravschi Andrei Sangheli |
| Succeeded by | Pavel Creangă |
| 1st Minister of Internal Affairs | |
| In office 3 June 1990 – 5 February 1992 | |
| President | Mircea Snegur |
| Prime Minister | Mircea Druc Valeriu Muravschi |
| Preceded by | Vladimir Voronin (as Minister of Internal Affairs of the Moldavian SSR) |
| Succeeded by | Constantin Antoci |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 February 1944 Țarigrad, Moldavia, România |
| Higher Military Aviation School from Kharkiv (1967) Gagarin Air Force Academy in Moscow (1976) Moscow Police Academy | |
| Occupation | Military |
| Military service | |
Years of service | 1967–1993 |
| Rank | Division general |
He is a leader of the Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova.
Biography
editCostaș was born in 1944 in the village of Țarigrad (Drochia District).[citation needed]
He was promoted in October 1988 to Major-General of the Soviet Army.[citation needed]
From 1990 to 1992 he was Minister of Internal Affairs in the Government of Moldova.[citation needed]
On 5 February 1992 Costaș became the first Minister of Defence of Moldova. He was later dismissed.[citation needed] He was then appointed as military attaché in Romania, where he was recalled in October 1993.
He retired from politics in 1993. He later became the general manager of Crystal System, an international group specialized in Information Technology. He was previously a regional manager for Hewlett Packard and for the Petrom, a large Romanian oil company. He led the contingent of veterans of the Transnistrian War on Great National Assembly Square during the 2011 Chișinău Independence Day Parade.[1]
In 2020 Costaș announced that he would run in the 2020 Moldovan presidential election as an independent candidate because there was no party "for the country and for the nation". He submitted the necessary documents for his participation to the Central Election Commission of Moldova (CEC) on 2 September.[2][3] However, on 29 September, Costaș announced that he would withdraw his candidacy due to the "violation by state institutions of the constitutional provisions regarding the election of the president" and urged other candidates to do the same.[4][5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ "В Кишиневе прошел военный парад по случаю 20-летия независимости Молдовы".[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Generalul Ion Costaș, un alt pretendent la fotoliul prezidențial". Radio Europa Liberă Moldova (in Romanian). 2 September 2020.
- ↑ "Generalul Ion Costaș candidează independent la prezidențiale. A depus actele la CEC". IPN (in Romanian). 2 September 2020.
- ↑ Botnarenco, Iurii (29 September 2020). "Generalul Ion Costaș anunță că nu mai participă la alegerile prezidențiale". Adevărul Moldova (in Romanian).[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Untila, Stela (29 September 2020). ""Alegerile respective sunt ilegale". Încă un pretendent a anunțat că se retrage din cursa electorală pentru prezidențiale". NewsMaker (in Romanian).