First reading vote: "Moldovan language" to be replaced by "Romanian language"
The phrase "Romanian language" is to replace "Moldovan language" throughout the legislation of the Republic of Moldova. The terms "official language", "state language" and "mother tongue" will also be replaced. A draft providing for this was voted in first reading at today's plenary session.
A group of MPs from the Action and Solidarity faction drafted the bill. The MPs also propose that the text "operating on the basis of the Latin spelling" in Article 13 of the Constitution be considered obsolete. Also, within 30 days from the entry into force of the law, the public authorities with competence to adopt, approve or issue normative acts inferior to the law will make the necessary amendments.
The bill also provides that the National Holiday "Our Language", as it is currently called in the Parliament Decision on commemorative days, holidays and rest days and in the Labour Code, will be called "Romanian Language".
The authors believe that the conditions that made it necessary to draw up this draft law are undoubtedly the result of the need and obligation to implement constitutional considerations contained in the acts of the High Court of Constitutional Jurisdiction, which establish an indisputable postulate, namely that the state language of the Republic of Moldova is Romanian.
"This legislative initiative does not constitute an ordinary initiative to amend the Constitution, but a technical one, resulting from the obligation to execute and/or implement the acts of the Constitutional Court," added MP Veronica Rosca, one of the authors of the project, according to a statement issued by Parliament.
The draft law was voted in first reading by 56 MEPs.
