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| president = [[Nicolae Timofti]]<br />[[Igor Dodon]]<br />[[Maia Sandu]]
| primeminister = {{List collapsed|title=''See list''|1=[[Chiril Gaburici]]<br />[[Natalia Gherman]] (acting)<br />[[Valeriu Streleț]]<br />[[Gheorghe Brega]] (acting)<br />[[Pavel Filip]]<br/>[[Maia Sandu]]<br/>[[Ion Chicu]]<br/>[[Aureliu Ciocoi]] (acting)<br/>[[Natalia Gavrilița]]<br/>[[Dorin Recean]]}}
| successor = [[Evghenia Gutul]]
| office2 = Member of the [[Moldovan Parliament]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|02|26|df=yes}}
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'''Irina Vlah''' ({{lang-ro|Irina Vlah}}, {{lang-gag|İrina Vlah}}, {{Lang-ru|Ирина Фёдоровна Влах|translit=Irina Fyodorovna Vlah}}; born 26 February 1974) is a [[Republic of Moldova|Moldovan]] politician. She served as member of the [[Parliament of the Republic of Moldova]] from 2005 to 2009 and from 2014 to 2015. Since 15 April 2015 she has been the [[Governor of Gagauzia|Governor (''Başkan'')]] of the [[Gagauzia|Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia]] (''Gagauz Yeri'').<ref>{{Cite web | last=Vitalie Călugăreanu | title=Irina Vlah este noul bașcan al "Gagauz-Yeri": "Sunt gata să-i propun stabilitate Chișinăului!"| newspaper= Deutsche Welle | date= 23 March 2015 | url=http://www.dw.de/irina-vlah-este-noul-ba%C8%99can-al-gagauz-yeri-sunt-gata-s%C4%83-i-propun-stabilitate-chi%C8%99in%C4%83ului/a-18333472| access-date=23 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | last=I. C.| title=Candidatul susținut fățiș de Rusia, Irina Vlah, a câștigat alegerile din Găgăuzia | newspaper=HotNews| date= 23 March 2015| url=http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-international-19718165-candidatul-sustinut-fatis-rusia-irina-vlah-castigat-alegerile-din-gagauzia.htm| access-date=23 March 2015}}</ref>
According to the polls made in 2019 related to the most popular politicians in Moldova, Irina Vlah is on the 9th position among the top of politicians in which Moldovans have the highest trust.<ref name="protv.md_2019-02-18">{{Citation | url=http://protv.md/stiri/actualitate/partidele-care-ar-ajunge-in-legislativ-daca-duminica-viitoare---2466841.html| title=Partidele care ar ajunge in legislativ daca duminica viitoare ar avea loc alegeri parlamentare. Top trei politicieni care se bucura de cea mai mare incredere. Sondaj iData| newspaper=protv.md| access-date=February 18, 2019}}</ref><ref name="stiri.md_2019-02-18">{{Citation | url=https://stiri.md/article/politica/sondaj-cine-sunt-politicienii-in-care-moldovenii-au-cea-mai-mare-incredere| title=Sondaj: Cine sunt politicienii în care moldovenii au cea mai mare încredere| newspaper=stiri.md| access-date=February 18, 2019}}</ref>
== Career ==
Irina Vlah was born on 26 February 1974 in Comrat into a family of employees. She is of [[Gagauz people|Gagauz]] and [[Bessarabian Bulgarians|Bulgarian]] heritage. From 1991 to 1996 she studied at the [[Comrat State University]] at the Faculty of Law.
From 2001 to 2008 she was a doctoral student at the [[Academy of Sciences of Moldova]] and defended her PhD thesis on the topic "The modern concept of the development of the civil service in the Republic of Moldova".
Beginning in 1996, she was a lawyer at a tax inspectorate, and from 2003-2005, she was Head of the Legal Department of the Executive Committee of Gagauzia.
== Political activities ==
From 2010-2014, she was a member of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova. From 2010 to January 2015, she was a member of the Political Executive Committee of the PCRM.
In 2010, she tried her hand at the elections in Gagauzia, enlisting the support of one-third of the voters in the first round.
== Governor ==
On 22 March 2015, Vlah was declared the winner of the [[2015 Gagauzian gubernatorial election|2015 Gagauzian gubernatorial elections]], gaining 51% percent of the vote in the first round, becoming the first female to hold a high executive position in the autonomous region. On 15 April, Vlah took the oath of office in [[Chișinău]] at the state residence in the presence of President [[Nicolae Timofti]], who signed a decree on confirming Vlah as a cabinet member.<ref>{{Cite web |title= |url=https://www.presedinte.md/eng/presa/guvernatorul-uta-gagauzia-irina-vlaha-depus-juramntul-in-calitate-de-membru-al-guvernului}}</ref>
In 2019, she was re-elected as the Governor of Gagauzia with a record (over 90%) number of votes.
On 4 March 2021, she was expelled from the [[Supreme Security Council]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Башкан Гагаузии исключена из состава Высшего совета безопасности |url=https://noi.md/ru/politika/bashkan-gagauzii-isklyuchena-iz-sostava-vysshego-soveta-bezopasnosti |access-date=2023-05-16 |website=noi.md |language=ru}}</ref>
==Honours and accolades==
* {{flag|Moldova}}: [[Order of Honour (Moldova)|Order of Honor]] (2019)<ref>{{Cite web |title= |url=https://www.legis.md/cautare/getResults?doc_id=112840&lang=ru}}</ref>
* {{flag|Russia}}: Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Restoration of the Patriarchate in the Russian Orthodox Church"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gagauzinfo.md/index.php?newsid=39823|title=Патриарх Московский и Всея Руси удостоил башкана юбилейной медали Русской Православной церкви|access-date=2018-05-17|archive-date=2018-05-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517153417/http://gagauzinfo.md/index.php?newsid=39823|deadlink=no}}</ref>(2018)
*{{flag|Azerbaijan}}: [[Dostlug Order|Friend of Azerbaijan Golden Order]] in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://azertag.az/en/xeber/Bashkan_of_Autonomous_Territorial_Unit_of_Gagauzia_awarded_with_Friend_of_Azerbaijan_Golden_Order-1334781|title=Bashkan of Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia awarded with Friend of Azerbaijan Golden Order|date=25 September 2019|publisher=azertac}}</ref>▼
▲*{{flag|Azerbaijan}}: [[Dostlug Order|Friend of Azerbaijan Golden Order]]
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