Liberal MPs filed an application to the Constitutional Court (CC), asking pronouncing on the fact whether the Declaration of Independence of Moldova forms part of the Constitution and, if it forms part, whether it can be used to interpret the constitutional norms, IPN reports.

The Liberal Party (PL) also asked specifying which of the legal provisions have priority when there should be implemented constitutional norms and norms from the Declaration of Independence. What is the correct name of the official language in Moldova - Romanian or Moldovan, according to the provisions that are to be interpreted?

Given that the constitutional norms and the Constitution in general derive from the Declaration of Independence, the authors of the application said they reached the conclusion that if there are provisions of the normative documents that run counter to the Declaration of Independence, they should be removed by a decision of the Constitutional Court.

The Liberal MPs said in a news conference that only after the CC rules on the name of the official language in Moldova will the splits in society be removed and the people will not be divided into Moldovans and Romanians.

Earlier, Liberal reformer Ana Gutu submitted a challenge to the CC, asking pronouncing on the fact if the phrase ‘Moldovan language’ in Article 13 of the Constitution can be replaced by ‘Romanian language’. The Court was to pronounce on the issue on September 12, but the meeting was proponed.