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President of Moldova (2009–2010); President of the Moldovan Parliament (2009–2010); member of the Parliament of Moldova (2009–2019); Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1995–1998)."},{"q":"Where did Mihai Ghimpu study?","a":"Mihai Ghimpu was educated at Moldova State University."}],"related":[{"name":"Abdullah Gül","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdullah-gul"},{"name":"Max Brauer","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/max-brauer"},{"name":"Adolf Spies von Büllesheim","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/adolf-spies-von-bullesheim"},{"name":"Alfred Gusenbauer","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alfred-gusenbauer"},{"name":"Jean-François Mattei","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jean-francois-mattei"},{"name":"Yvon Bourges","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yvon-bourges"},{"name":"Vlad Filat","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/vlad-filat"},{"name":"Nicolae Timofti","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nicolae-timofti"},{"name":"Vladimir Voronin","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/vladimir-voronin"},{"name":"Marian Lupu","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/marian-lupu"},{"name":"Mircea Snegur","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mircea-snegur"},{"name":"Petru Lucinschi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/petru-lucinschi"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/mihai-ghimpu-2a380149c7.jpg","width":500,"height":670,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Wiki Moldova","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mihai_Ghimpu_Imagine.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Mihai Ghimpu","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai_Ghimpu","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q294473","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294473","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Mihai Ghimpu Imagine.jpg by Wiki Moldova (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mihai_Ghimpu_Imagine.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Mihai Ghimpu, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Mihai Ghimpu Imagine.jpg — Wiki Moldova, Public domain.","cite":"\"Mihai Ghimpu\". DigiNepal. Last updated 8 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/mihai-ghimpu. Retrieved 14 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-08T06:49:58Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-13","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/mihai-ghimpu","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/mihai-ghimpu","ne":null}}