Ion Hadârcă (born 17 August 1949)[1] is a poet, translator and Moldovan politician, deputy to the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova between 1990 and 1998 and from 2009 to 2014.

Ion Hadârcă was the founder and first president of the Popular Front of Moldova (1989–1992), chairman of the Liberal Reformist Party.

Since 1988, poet Ion Hadârcă is committed to the national liberation movement, to awaken the conscience of the Bessarabian Romanians.

On 28 January 1993, the President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, Alexandru Moșanu, Vice-President Ion Hadârcă, the Chairman of the Mass Media Commission Valeriu Matei and the President of the Foreign Relations Commission Vasile Nedelciuc surprisingly presented their resignation, motivating their gesture the desire to prevent public opinion "on the danger of full restoration of the totalitarian regime in the Republic of Moldova".

Between 1 January 1996 and 22 June 1998, he was an alternate member of the Republic of Moldova delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.