Gheorghe Amihalachioaie

Moldovan lawyer and politician

Gheorghe Amihalachioaie OR

Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 10 March 1990 – 27 February 1994
Constituency	Chișinău

Personal details
Born	(1949-06-01) June 1, 1949 (age 74) Molnița, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova
Other political affiliations	Popular Front of Moldova
Alma mater	Moldova State University
Awards	Order of the Republic (Moldova) Order of Honour (Moldova)

Gheorghe Amihalachioaie (born 1 June 1949) is a Moldovan lawyer and politician who served as member of the Parliament of Moldova from 1990 to 1994,^[1] a signatory of the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova.

He was born in Molnița, Hertsa Raion, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, currently Molnytsia, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. In 1996 he was elected President of the Bar Association, and in 1999 he was president of the Union of Lawyers in Moldova. Since 2002 he has been chairman of the Bar Council of the Republic of Moldova. In 2004 he became vice-president of the Centrist Union of Moldova.

After the elections of 29 July 2009, he left the Centrist Union and, together with about 40 MPs from the first Parliament (1990–1994), joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova.^[2] He is known for defending his own case at the ECHR, which, on April 20, 2004, won him the case in the "Amihalachioaie vs. Republic of Moldova" file after the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova decided the imposition of a fine because he has made public his critical position towards a court ruling.^[3]^[4]

In 2011, Amihalachioaie was awarded the Order of Honour,^[5] while in 2012 he was awarded the Order of the Republic.^[6]

References

^ "Cine au fost și ce fac deputații primului Parlament din R. Moldova (1990-1994)?". VIP Magazine (in Romanian). October 2006. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
^ Biografie pe pldm.md
^ "15 cei mai în vogă avocați din Moldova". Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
^ Decizie Nr. 1 din 03.08.2004 privind Hotărîrea Curții Europene a Drepturilor Omului din 20 aprilie 2004 în cazul Gheorghe Amihalachioaie versus Republica Moldova
^ "Decret Nr. 273 din 26.08.2011 privind conferirea de distincții de stat unor deputați în Parlamentul Republicii Moldova de legislatura a douăsprezecea". lex.justice.md (in Romanian). Retrieved August 13, 2023.
^ "Decret Nr. 450 din 28.12.2012 privind conferirea "Ordinului Republicii" unor deputați în Parlamentul Republicii Moldova de legislatura a douăsprezecea". lex.justice.md (in Romanian). Retrieved August 13, 2023.