“The bill was approved in the first reading by the votes of 56 deputies,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

It is noted that the voting procedure took place under the cries of "shame" and "early elections", which were chanted by opposition deputies.

According to the project, the words "Moldovan language" in any grammatical form are replaced by the words "Romanian language".

In December last year, Grosu said that the ruling party was studying the possibility of replacing the phrase "Moldovan language" with the expression "Romanian language" in the articles of the country's Constitution.