The Constitution is the product of our historical, political and cultural development. It is the legal act that defines our ideology and that sets our collective agenda of social and political changes. The Constitution made and will make the law in the Republic of Moldova, while the new threats, the propaganda, misinformation, polarization and stratification of society show how important freedom is and how much authentic democracy is worth. Such statements were made in a ceremony staged to mark the Constitution Day at the Palace of the Republic. This involved high-ranking officials, representatives of the diplomatic corps, personalities from the fields of culture and science and presidents and judges of the Constitutional Courts of Germany, Lithuania, Romania and Ukraine, IPN reports.
Speaker of Parliament Andrian Candu said the Republic of Moldova now more than ever needs solidarity and unity for modernizing the country by the European model and the benchmarks of the Constitution help to implement the new norms and to defend society and the state without encroaching upon the basic rights and fundamental freedoms. “Sometimes we forget that everyone should work and respect the law if we really want to live in a democratic, prosperous country where each citizen enjoys rights and equal chances. I was recently asked if I like the Constitution and I immediately thought about Article 13 (e.n. Official language, functioning of other languages), which I think caused the biggest controversy since the declaration of independence. But can one article discredit a document that guarantees and enshrines human dignity as a supreme value?” asked Andrian Candu.
Prime Minister Pavel Filip said the Constitution Day is a good occasion for measuring the distance between the constitutional desiderata and the way in which the values and principles that define the fundamental law of the Republic of Moldova are transposed. “Our key goal is to make sure that the fundamental law becomes a mirror of social, economic and political realities in the Republic of Moldova. The rights and freedoms should not only be declared, but also really guaranteed. The institutions should be functional and efficient and should serve the people, starting with the most deprived ones,” stated the Premier.
Constitutional Court president Tudor Pantaru noted we should not forget especially today, when our independence is more often challenged, that the values contained in the fundamental law and the people’s aspirations enshrined in the preamble of the Constitution were stated a little earlier, on August 27, 1991. “A Constitution that proclaims the values of liberal democracy is an additional proof of the maturity of a political regime. Our fundamental law is such a Constitution. But the democratic maturity goes through a number of stages. There are young and advanced democracies. We should admit that we are at the start of the road in this regard, but I think we chose a correct road,” he said.
The Constitution of the Republic of Moldova was adopted on July 29, 1994.
