COMMUNIST DEPUTIES FROWN AT CC DECISION ABOUT LANGUAGE LAW

Moldovan Communist Party (MCP) parliamentary faction expressed indignation about "another unconstitutional decision of the Constitutional Court, which declared the 1989 Law on language functioning as outdated".

The party statement expresses an opinion that the Moldovan CC, made exclusively of Romanian citizens, continues to systematically destroy the bases of the Moldovan statehood, undermine the foundations of civil consensus, provoke disunity in the society.

"The decision with no parallel on declaring the Law on language functioning as outdated, adopted on suggestion of well-known Romania's agent of influence, political renegade Mihai Ghimpu and his accomplices, is dangerous not only to the status of the Russian language as an interlanguage, but also to the official status of the Moldovan language", Communists maintain.

They fear that the new version of the law will imply not just the depriving the Russian language of its natural purpose - communication between various ethnic groups in the multinational Moldovan society, but also replacement of the phrase "Moldovan language" for the "Romanian language" in the article #13 of the Main Law.

They reminded that according to the recent population and household census in Moldova, absolute majority of citizens consider themselves Moldovans and their language - Moldovan. Besides, the number of ethnic Moldovans exceeds the number of ethnic Romanians more than 10-fold, while the number of people, who said their native language is Moldovan, is three-fold higher than those who call the language Romanian.

The MCP called on everyone, who cares about such important components as civil peace, official status of the Moldovan and Russian languages, ethnic and state continuity of Moldovans in history, to unite and repulse Unionists and nationalists, who decided to deprive Moldovans of the most holy thing in life of a person, a people, a state - the historical memory.