The Parliament of Moldova approved in the second, final reading a bill according to which the name of the state language in the Constitution and other laws will be changed from Moldovan to Romanian. According to RBC with reference to Newsmaker.md, 58 deputies out of 101 voted for this decision, and a majority of the votes of the parliamentarians present is needed to pass the bill.
Deputies of the ruling Action and Solidarity (PAS) party, which initiated the bill, greeted the results of the vote with shouts of “Bravo”. “Congratulations. This vote is a bit late,” said Igor Grosu, Speaker of the Parliament.
The faction of communists and socialists opposed the bill, the deputies came to the meeting with posters “The Constitution of Moldova: Moldova, Moldovans, Moldovan”, “The people are sovereign. PAS is a tyrant.” They suggested removing the bill from the agenda, but the initiative did not get the required number of votes.
The bill developed by PAS provides for the implementation of the decision of the Constitutional Court of December 2013, according to which the definition of “Moldovan language” in the Constitution should be replaced by “Romanian”. Ten years ago, the Constitutional Court ruled that the Declaration of Independence of Moldova, which states that the state language is Romanian, takes precedence over the Constitution (according to it, the state language is “Moldovan based on Latin script”, de jure identical to literary Romanian). The decision of the Constitutional Court was binding, but did not convince the parliament to take appropriate action.
The PAS proposal was supported by the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, stating that the adoption of this norm will put an end to “endless unnecessary discussions on this issue, all the speculation that has been going on for several decades,” and will also affect the country’s European integration process.
On March 6, in Chisinau, representatives of the socialist and communist parties and their supporters went to a rally in front of the building of the Constitutional Court in defense of the Moldovan language. The participants chanted: “We are Moldovans”, “Respect the Constitution”.
Source: Rosbalt
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