[3] In parliament, he was previously a member of the Committee on Culture, Education, Research, Youth, Sport and Media.

[4] He currently serves on the Committee on National Security, Defense and Public Order.

[5] In the 2023 Moldovan local elections he ran for Mayor of Chișinău, winning 28.27% of the vote but was defeated by Ion Ceban.

[6] In 2001, he graduated from Ion Creangă State Pedagogical University of Chișinău in the Faculty of History and Ethnopedagogy.

[7] Since 2002 he has worked as a professor at the State University of Physical Education and Sport, and first entered politics in 2009 as part of the cabinet of Dorin Chirtoaca.