The supporters of the Moldovan statehood have stood up with accusations against the Constitutional Court, claiming that with its judgment of last December 5 concerning the official language’s name the Court “has created legal prerequisites for liquidation of the Republic of Moldova as an independent state, and has legitimized conditions for abolishing Moldova’s independence as such”.    

On Wednesday, the supporters convened a news conference at Infotag and made public their Appeal to Moldova citizens calling on them to “react to the Constitutional Court judgment, to demonstrate national dignity, and to oppose to the revanchism attempts being made by anti-state forces”.      

“The Court’s decision – that the preamble to the Declaration of Independence of Moldova prevails over the Constitution – is but a state crime. We demand an immediate resignation of the incumbent Court composition for their profanation of the Constitution and of the efforts by millions of citizens to consolidate the Moldovan statehood. We insist that Romanian President Traian Basescu must be declared as persona non grata in the Republic of Moldova for his hostile and insulting statements against the Moldovan people and the Moldovan state”, said the Address read out by Eugen Cioroi of the initiative group.        

In the words of historian Anatol Dubrovschi, a former Deputy Minister of Education, the Constitutional Court decision was provoked from outside the republic. He said, “The Romanian political elite are afraid that the recognition of the Moldovan language may stir up separatism in Romania”.       

Emil Ciobu, Moldova’s former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Romania, thinks that some Chisinau intellectuals do not serve the interests of the people of Moldova.   

“To recognize Romanian as an official language, it is necessary to amend the Constitution [which stipulates that the country’s official language is Moldovan]. If the incumbent authorities are not able to do this, then any other actions by them in this direction are but usurpation of the state power”, presumes the diplomat.      

Historian Vasile Stati said, “The authorities should come to realize that attempts to split up a country usually lead to bloodshed. We do hope that the Moldovan society will wake up one day and will stand up against the continuing attempts to liquidate the Moldovan statehood”.    

Writer Boris Marian said that the Constitutional Court decision has no relation to philology or linguistics – it was a purely political decision.    

“We don’t deny that Moldovan and Romanian are one and the same language. But the very discussion of this question means but adding oil to the political fire. If our authorities continue in such a manner, the Ukrainian situation may repeat in Chisinau”, warned the writer, calling Moldovans to “national consciousness”.       

The Appeal was signed by nearly 30 people, including former ambassador to Romania Emil Ciobu, Bishop Marchel, political scientist Dr. Nicolae Tveatcov of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences, economist Vissarion Cheshuyev, writer Boris Marian, historians Victor Stepaniuc, Vasile Stati, Sergiu Nazaria and Anatol Dubrovschi etc.       

Infotag’s dossier:   Last December 5, the Moldovan Constitutional Court arrived at a conclusion that Romanian and Moldovan are one and the same language, but as the Declaration of Independence of Moldova [which called the language Romanian] prevails over the Constitution, then the state language must be called Romanian.