Veaceslav Untilă

Veaceslav Untilă (born 15 June 1956 in Codreanca) is a Moldovan politician.

Biography 

Veaceslav Untilă was born on 15 June 1956 in the Codreanca village, Strășeni District, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, to a family of teachers. He graduated the Engineering School of the Technical University in Chisinau in 1978 and the Law School of the State University of Moldova in 1997. Between 1994 and 1998 he did the PhD at the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and in 1999 he undertakes a training program at George C. Marshall European Center. Between 1978 and 1995, Veaceslav Untila works for the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of Moldova, between 1992 and 1995 he is head of the Auto Inspectorate of MIA, and between 1998 and 2000 he is deputy minister of MIA. In 2001 he becomes National Secretary of the cross-governmental committee TRACECA, holding this office until 2002. In 1992 Mr. Untila is involved in the defence of independence and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova. He received the Golden Eagle award, the title Chevalier of Order of Honor, Cross of Merit (rank II) and the Silver Medal of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. Between 1995 and 1998 Mr Untila serves as international officer for OISR (Geneva). Besides his diplomatic work, Mr. Untila conducts extensive scientific research. He is a PhD in Law, author of tens of publications on the fight against organized crime. In 1999, he becomes associate professor at the UNESCO International Personnel Management Academy (Ukraine, Kiev). In 2000, he becomes Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Criminology in Moldova. In the period of 1989-1993 he is a member of the Chisinau municipal council and in 1999 he becomes the leader of the public association „Civic Strategy”. In 2016 Mr. Untila is awarded the Order of Republic for outstanding achievements. He speaks Russian and French, is married to Alexandra Untila and has two children.

Political activity 

Veaceslav Untilă started his political career in 2001, behind involved in the campaign for early parliamentary elections. In the same year, he becomes the president of the Order and Social Justice Party of Moldova. After the latter merged with the National Liberal Party, on September 22, 2001 Untila becomes the chairman of the National Council of the Social-Liberal Union „Moldova’s Strength” (USL Forta Moldovei). He further calls on all the center-right wing forces to merge into one single party, which to some extent was achieved through the merger of PRCM, USL Forta Moldovei and PNTCD and creation of the Liberal Party on March 24, 2002. Soon after being elected president of the Liberal Party on October 27, 2002 Untila contributes to the creation of Moldova Noastra Alliance through the merger of the Liberal Party, Social-Democratic Alliance and Alliance of the Independents (July 19, 2003) and becomes one of its co-presidents. He was also deputy president of the Electoral Bloc „Democratic Moldova”. In 2005 Untila becomes first-deputy president of the Moldova Noastra Alliance and in 2005 - Member of the Moldovan Parliament, deputy leader of the parliamentary group of Moldova Noastra Alliance and chair of the parliamentary committee for public administration, environment and territorial development.   
In 2008, Veaceslav Untila successfully advocates for the introduction of the „historical amendment” on the withdrawal of the Russian troops and weapons from Moldova in NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s resolution. With the formation of a new Parliament in Moldova in 2009, he becomes MP. In January 2010, he joins the European Action Movement (EAM) and during its third Extraordinary Congress he is elected president of the party by a majority vote. Together with Iurie Colesnic he forms the parliamentary group of EAM.
In March 2011, EAM’s Extraordinary Congress decides on the self-dissolution and merger of EAM with the Liberal Party (LP). Later, on March 13, 2011, LP’s Republican Council decides to designate Untila as one of LP’s deputy presidents. 
On September 26, 2012, Untila is appointed director of the State Ecologic Inspection of Moldova, holding this office until June 5, 2013. On December 2014, he becomes Member of the Moldovan Parliament and chairman of the parliamentary committee for national security, defence and public order.
On July 29, 2016 Veaceslav Untila is appointed President of the Court of Accounts of Moldova for a five-year term.

Published works
 Regulamentul circulaţiei rutiere, Editura Universul, Chișinău, 1995
 Crima organizată – contrasens, Editura Litera, Chișinău, 1999
 Crima organizată – stop, Editura Museum, Chișinău, 2000
 De ce ASC?, Editura Museum, Chișinău, 2000
 Traiectoria evoluţiei politice, Editura Litera, Chișinău, 2003
 Petele negre ale guvernării roșii, Editura Ulise, Chișinău, 2004
 Politica e un joc serios, Editura Ulise, Chișinău, 2006
 Petele negre ale guvernării roșii (volume II), Editura Ulise, Chișinău, 2009
 Politics for Moldova, Editura Ulise, Chișinău, 2011
 Lecții de politică, Editura Pontos, Chișinău, 2016

External links 
 Profile on the website of Alianţa "Moldova Noastră"
 „Miza noastră este unirea”, Cronica Română, 9 August 2003
 "Dacă există corupţie, avem şi oameni corupţi", Timpul, 19 December 2003
 „Până la urmă, adevărul şi democraţia vor învinge”, Timpul, 8 April 2005
 „AMN şi-a confirmat opţiunea social-liberală”, Timpul, 1 July 2005
 „Comuniştii au interzis cartea mea, pentru a-şi ascunde fărădelegile comise”, Timpul, 16 February 2006
 „Un pas în întâmpinarea asociaţiilor obşteşti”, Timpul, 12 April 2006
  “Basarabenii nu trebuie să se simtă abandonaţi de România”, Timpul, 21 December 2006

Category:1956 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Strășeni District
Category:Moldova State University alumni
Category:Our Moldova Alliance politicians
Category:Moldovan MPs 2005–2009
Category:Moldovan MPs 2009
Category:Moldovan MPs 2009–2010
Category:Moldovan MPs 2010–2014
Category:European Action Movement politicians

Category:Recipients of the Order of Honour (Moldova)