The Liberal Party (PL) intends to file an application to the Constitutional Court to ask it to examine the constitutionality of five laws that provide that Russian is the language of communication between nations in the Republic of Moldova, IPN reports.

According to the Liberal leader Mihai Ghimpu, the law on the functioning of the languages spoken on the territory of the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic adopted in 1989 runs counter to the Constitution as it replaces the official language, giving it the status of communication language. “In all the states, the official language of the state is also the communication language. At the same time, the Constitution says that Russian is not a communication language and belongs to the languages of the minorities,” stated Mihai Ghimpu.

“Giving the Russian language a superior status compared with other national minorities at a time when the Russian ethnicity is made up of 4% of the population, discriminatory inequality is created and the Constitution that guarantees the equality of the people before the law is violated. We want this situation to be put right as such a step is long-awaited in society,” said MP Ion Casian.

Deputy chairman of the PL Valeriu Munteanu said the application is based on the Constitutional Court’s judgment of 2013, which provides that the Constitution should be read in preamble with the Declaration of Independence.

The Liberals will submit the application in several days.