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A modern, brightly lit meeting room in a health centre: on a long wooden table lie folders and binders with sheets of charts, and a stethoscope rests on top of one folder; at the head of the table, beside a large window, an empty office chair; through the window a Moldovan rural landscape is visible, with a hill and a village in the valley.
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Six health centres in Ungheni call the diaspora onto their boards — with a vote, but unpaid

A month after merging the district's health centres — from 11 down to 6 —, the Ungheni District Council is rebuilding their governing boards and inviting doctors who have left the country, as well as people from the community, to take a seat on them. The post carries a vote on the institution's strategy, budget and procurement, but it is unpaid, on a voluntary basis. Applications are due by the end of July — 24 July at the Ungheni Health Centre, 27 July according to the District Council's notice for all six centres.

Ion Calmis·16 July 2026· News
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Illustration of a reimagined city: a street with pedestrian zones, bike lanes, green spaces and benches, overlaid with survey graphics and digital urban maps.
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Ungheni City Hall invites residents to an anonymous 15-minute survey about the city's future

The city of Ungheni is asking residents for their views on mobility, public spaces, green areas and digital services through an anonymous online questionnaire that takes 15–20 minutes. The survey is part of the European project CORESpaces, funded through the Horizon Europe Programme, in which Ungheni is one of the nine urban “living labs” in Europe. Through the project, concrete measures are planned in Ungheni — from green corridors at the French Park and Delia Lake to a study for an electromobility hub — and the answers will help set the city's development priorities.

Ion Calmis·15 July 2026· News
Symbolic illustration: ten country roads converging from villages scattered among hills toward a single administrative building, seen from above in evening light.
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Ungheni's single mayor's office, put on paper: 128 positions instead of 152. Votes start Friday

The document describing how the merged administration of Ungheni municipality and nine neighboring localities would work — 78 pages, published on particip.gov.md — was presented on Wednesday, July 15. The administrative apparatus would shrink from almost 152 positions to 128, yet would be „present in every locality”. The same day, in Rădenii Vechi, residents discussed the draft decision of the Pîrlița cluster at the village assembly. The voting calendar is already fixed in official acts: Florițoaia Veche — July 17, Pîrlița — July 27, Sculeni — scheduled for July 31.

Ion Calmis·15 July 2026· News
Ungheni Sports School’s children’s team, in light-blue kit reading ‘UNGHENI’, lined up on a synthetic-turf pitch beside their coach; in front, on the grass, the flag of the Republic of Moldova and a banner reading ‘CHAMPIONS’.
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Silver at Mamaia for the youngest footballers of Ungheni Sports School

The group of children born in 2018 — the youngest athletes at Ungheni District Sports School — returned with the silver medal from the ‘Junior Mamaia Cup’, a children’s football tournament held in Mamaia, Romania. It is the youngest link in a district school that, in the same summer, promoted its U16 juniors to the National League and that already held, since 2023, a national bronze in beach football. Behind the trip are coach Constantin Lungu and the parents who accompanied the little ones.

Ion Calmis·15 July 2026· News
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A village view in the Prut valley at golden hour: a country road links several clusters of houses with tiled roofs and gardens on gentle hills, with a modest public building in frame.
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Bușila, Chirileni and Negurenii Vechi want to merge: three mayoralties into one, above the 3,000-resident threshold

Three neighbouring communes in Ungheni district — Bușila, Chirileni and Negurenii Vechi — have started the voluntary amalgamation process and are now consulting their residents. Each council voted, in the spring, to initiate the merger, and together the three would gather 3,533 residents — above the 3,000 threshold that the administrative reform requires of a mayoralty. The idea of a single administration for three villages divides people: some see it as a chance for better services, others fear they will lose their home mayoralty. Here is what has been decided so far, what comes next and what the two camps say.

Ion Calmis·15 July 2026· News
A disused rural medical building with broken windows and crumbling plaster, in a yard overgrown with weeds
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840,000 lei from three disused medical buildings. Nobody wanted the former hospital in Bușila

On 23 June, Ungheni District Council put three property complexes up for auction. The primary document reveals what they actually were: all three are former health facilities — a former family doctors' office at Curtoaia, the former physiotherapy block at Cornești, and the former hospital at Bușila. The first two sold for 840,000 lei, and the smallest of them fetched 4.7 times its valuation. For the former hospital, not a single bidder registered — and the regulations allow it to fall, in time, to half the price now being asked. The buyers' names are not public.

Ion Calmis·15 July 2026· AnalysisWHAT'S AT STAKE
An administrative sign at the entrance to a locality, on a country road, with hills and houses in the background
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Cornești was 180 people short. It wanted two villages from a neighbouring commune — and the State Chancellery annulled its merger in five days

The Ungheni Territorial Office of the State Chancellery ordered the town of Cornești to repeal its decision to merge. The reason, taken from the document: the perimeter was unlawful — the town wanted to take the villages of Mircești and Poiana out of the commune of Boghenii Noi, and the law does not permit a commune to be dismembered. The arithmetic explains the haste: the town and the village of Cornești together have 2,820 inhabitants, 180 below the legal threshold of 3,000. The council repealed within five days — but at the same sitting it sent the villages to Parliament by another route and relaunched the merger, this time with Bumbăta. All three, 11 votes to nil.

Ion Calmis·14 July 2026· AnalysisWHAT'S AT STAKE