An economist at her base, she was a finance minister and prime minister during the post-Soviet communist era. In 2011, together with Igor Dodon and Veronica Abramciuc she deserted the Moldovan Party of Communists and joined the Moldovan Party of Socialists (PSRM). Zinaida Greceanii’s career is all about the public service. She has defended an openly pro-Russian policy along her career.

In the February 2019 elections she ran in the uninominal constituency № 1 Briceni and won a seat in Parliament, which she now heads as speaker after PSRM joined forces with ACUM.

Zinaida Greceanii’s husband, Alexei, was involved in a scandal related to cash withdrawals from Banca de Economii. He acted as a member of the managing board of Cojusna Winery, which had taken credits that were never paid back.

In the 2025 parliamentary elections, she is running on behalf of the Patriotic Bloc of the Socialists, Communists, Heart and Future of Moldova, being fifth on the list. RISE Moldova revealed that she exchanged million-worth houses in the suburbs of Chisinau with her son.

At the same time, her daughter, Oxana, a former employee of the Moldovan Embassy in Russia and representative of the Government in the Eurasian Economic Union, moved to live in Moscow.

RISE Moldova discovered that Oxana Greceanii obtained a Russian passport during the period when she worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while her mother was a Member of Parliament.