Minister of Justice Fadei Nagachevski said the MPs who requested the Constitutional Court (CC) to check the constitutionality of the law on the functioning of languages spoken on the territory of the Republic of Moldova consider they can improve their political rating by attacking the Russian language. The hearing to examine the challenge was set for January 21 and the minister promises it will be very interesting.

The challenge was filed by MPs Dinu Plîngău and Octavian Țîcu. “History repeats itself. It seems that the MPs forgot that they go to Gagauzia, Taraclia and that locals communicate with them namely in Russian. Why? For a simple reason. The Russian language is used, de facto, as a language of interethnic communication and the challenged law was aimed at offering the citizens access to information of public interest and to particular public services by developing the legal provisions of normative documents in the future,” Fadei Nagachevski stated in a press briefing, being quoted by IPN.

According to the minister, the law was formulated by taking into account the Russian speakers, not the Russian ethnics (the community of Ukrainians is larger than the Russian one, e.n.) “Dear MPs, the legal benefits can turn into political disasters. There are sufficient precedents. You can remember the annulment of the mayoral elections in the municipality of Chisinau. A political struggle against you is not needed. You yourself do everything possible to annihilate yourself politically. I wish you success. I’m convinced that the attempts by some of the irresponsible politicians to divide the citizens according to ethnic, linguistic criteria do not have a chance and will end with a lamentable failure, regardless of the solution of the Constitutional Court,” stated Fadei Nagachevski.

The law on the functioning of languages was adopted by Parliament in the middle of last December. This was passed by the votes of the Socialist MPs and the MPs of the Shor Party.