In Moldova they want to save money in Russian
A bill obliging all deputies to know the state language and use it in their work has been registered in the Parliament of Moldova, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
As reported by the Moldovan publication NewsMaker, the bill was registered by deputies of the Liberal Party.
The bill prohibits citizens who do not speak Romanian from running for parliament.
The bill also proposes not to translate bills into Russian and to oblige deputies to speak in parliament only in the state language.
If the bill is adopted, the parliament's legal commission will be tasked with developing a mechanism for checking deputies' knowledge of the language.
The authors of the bill explain the initiative by decisions of the Constitutional Court recognizing the supremacy of the Declaration of Independence over the Constitution, in which Romanian is named the state language, and recognizing the law “On the Functioning of Languages” as “obsolete”.
The explanatory note states that since the Constitutional Court has declared the law obsolete, there is no need to preserve the status of the Russian language - “the official language of the USSR.”
They plan to save 1,5 million lei per year by translating bills into Russian.
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