About Vlad Filat Vladimir Filat (b. Lăpuşna on May 6, 1969) is a Moldovan jurist and politician.Education and Career Filat was born on May 6, 1969, in Lăpuşna, a commune in Moldavian SSR, where he completed the high school in 1986. He carried out the compulsory military service in the Soviet army (1987-1989). After that, he studied at the Cooperation College (Kooperativny technikum) of Chişinău (1989-1990) and law at the University of Iaşi (1990-1994). Filat was general director of "RoMold Trading SRL" in Iaşi (1994-1997) and the president of the Administrative Council of "Dosoftei" company in Iaşi (1997-1998). He obtained the Romanian Citizenship. Early political activity Filat was a member of the Democratic Party of Moldova from 1997, when the party was founded, until 2007. Having returned to Moldova for good in 1998, he was appointed, in 1999, as general director of the Department of Privatization and State Property Administration from the Ministry of Economy and Reform of the Government of the Republic of Moldova. He was a State ministry in the Ion Sturza Cabinet of Moldova in 1999. In 2000, Filat was elected vicepresident of the Democratic Party of Moldova. In 2005 parliamentary election, he became a member of the Moldovan Parliament. Until March 2009, he was vicepresident of the Parliamentary Commission for Security, Public Order, and Defense. He run for mayor of Chişinău in the 2007 local election and won 8.32%, the 4th place. Soon after the local election, in September 2007, he left the Democratic Party after ten years of political activity inside the party. Filat is the president of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova since December 2007.