The president of Moldova ratifies the law that establishes Romanian as the official name of the country’s language

March 22 () –

The President of Moldova, Maia Sandu, has signed this Wednesday the law that was approved last week by Parliament with which the language spoken in the country and not Moldovan will now be officially called Romanian.

“This law confirms the historical truth. The state language in Moldova is Romanian. Those who have been telling us for decades that we, the citizens of Moldova speak ‘Moldovan’ and not Romanian, have only one goal: to divide us,” he said. President Sandu during the signing.

“Because by dividing the people it is easier to subdue and control them. Those who try to divide us are not concerned with linguistics, but with how to keep Moldova in a state of eternal national discord,” he said.

Sandu has stressed that Romanian is one of the official languages ​​of the European Union and says she is convinced that this language “unites all those who live and love” Moldova, collects the News Maker news portal.

Ahead of President Sandu’s signing, authorities in Romania and Russia rhetorically engaged on the matter on Tuesday. First, the spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, who assured that following “historical logic” the language should be called Moldovan and not Romanian.

In response, Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu replied that “the Moldovan language does not exist” as “it is an artificial construction created by the Soviet Union and used by Russia for propaganda purposes.”

Zajarova insisted and affirmed “Aurescu did not always exist either, that he was created” and if that is why he should be considered an artificial construction. “Unlike the Romanian minister, the Moldovan language is an important phenomenon in world history,” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman replied.

For its part, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Moldova responded this Wednesday that Zajarova’s statement is an attempt by Russia to interfere in its internal affairs. “It is our sovereign right to decide what to call the language we speak. We do not need history lessons,” she has settled.

On March 16, the Moldovan Parliament approved in second reading a bill proposed by the Action and Solidarity (PAS) party to change the name of the language to Romanian in all official texts, including the Constitution.

Already in 2013, the Constitutional Court of Moldova ruled that the text of the Declaration of Independence, in which the name of the language spoken in Moldova is established as Romanian, prevails over what is contemplated in the Constitution, in which it refers to her as Moldovan.