DISINFO: Moldova: Maia Sandu is attempting to forcibly "Romanize" almost all spheres of life
SUMMARY
Everything Russian and Moldavian is being squeezed out of Moldova.
The leadership of Moldova, headed by Maia Sandu, is doing everything to change the mentality of the Moldovans. The most obvious confirmation of this is the adoption by the PAS party and the signing by the president of a law that makes Romanian the state language instead of the Moldovan language, contrary to the country's Constitution. Today we can say that in the republic there is a violent "Romanization" of almost all spheres of life, and firstly - culture.
RESPONSE
This claim is an attempt to discredit President Maia Sandu and her party, portraying them as Western puppets. This is happening in the context of a decision to call the state language Romanian, decision which is presented as a Western plot to forcibly "Romanise" Moldova.
The official state language in Moldova is Romanian, the native language of 82.2% of the population. In 1991, the Declaration of Independence of Moldova from the USSR named the official language as Romanian, referring to the 1989 law adopted by the former Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic.
In December 2013, the Constitutional Court of Moldova ruled that the Declaration of Independence takes precedence over the Constitution, and the state language should be called "Romanian".
The International Organisation for Standardisation, which originally provided a separate code for the Moldovan language, later abolished it and identifies Moldova's language as Romanian.
Thus, the recent decision of Moldova´s Parliament only brings the wording of the Constitution in line with the decision of the Constitutional Court.
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