[3] Pavel Voicu was born on 29 January 1973 in Frăsinești (now Măcărești, Ungheni) in the western part of the Moldovan SSR.

On 22 August 2017, he was appointed Councilor to the President of Moldova for special missions, serving alongside Vasile Şova.

[4][5][6][3] Pavel Voicu was appointed Minister of Defense, by the decree of the President Dodon on 8 June 2019, officially joining the newly formed Sandu Cabinet.

[7][8] Over the course of his leadership at the defence ministry, he only made two major visits to foreign countries, one to Moscow to meet with Russian defence minister Sergey Shoygu and the other to the United States accompanied by Ambassador Dereck J. Hogan to meet with Moldovan troops training with the North Carolina National Guard in Fort Irwin.

[10] President Maia Sandu had accused the Interior Ministry and Voicu personally of following her family members as the campaign for the 2021 Moldovan parliamentary election began.