The Party of Socialists (PSRM) said it will create a working group that will think up a new law on the functioning of languages on Moldova’s territory. The reaction comes after the Constitutional Court passed a judgment by which the law on the functioning of the languages spoken on the territory of Moldova was declared ‘outdated’. In a press statement, the PSRM says the Court’s judgment is scandalous and creates a new dangerous circumstance concerning civil peace and the sociopolitical stability in the country, IPN reports.
According to the Socialists, the classing of the given law as ‘outdated’ means that the interethnic and linguistic relations in Moldova are regulated by no law and this will lead to the commission of wrongdoings by any functionary, at any level, and to the appearance of dangerous interethnic conflicts that can cover whole regions of the country.
The Socialist parliamentary group considers an updated law on the functioning of languages on Moldova’s territory should be worked out and adopted immediately and the bill should include the following fundamental theses for the existence of Moldovan society: “The official language of the Republic of Moldova is Moldovan (in accordance with Article 13 of the Constitution); the Russian language will receive the official status of language of communication between nations, which is the language spoken by over 1 million Moldovan citizens (Article 7 of the Constitution), and protection and guaranteeing of linguistic and cultural diversity on the whole territory of the republic (Constitution)”.
According to the party, the adoption of this law is the only possible scenario for ensuring and strengthening the Moldovan multinational state, is the most important condition for respecting the rights of Moldovan citizens and is a mandatory norm for the future integration of the two sides of the Nistru River into a common society.
The Constitutional Court on June 4 partially accepted the challenge filed by Liberal MPs, who said that the obligation to use the Russian language and the translation of public documents and acts into this language go against the Constitution. The Court declared Article 4, paragraph 2 of the Constitutional Jurisdiction Code and Article 31, paragraph 2 of the Law of December 13, 1994 concerning the Constitutional Court unconstitutional. It also ascertained the desuetude of the law on the functioning of the languages spoken on the territory of the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic of September 1, 1989.
