A “National Reunification Forum” was held on Sunday, 14 June, in Ungheni, in the Înfrățirii square, according to the announcement made by the organisers ahead of the event. The forum is dedicated to promoting the union of the Republic of Moldova with Romania and was convened by the National Reunification Platform, a civic group set up in March 2025 in Chișinău.
The Ungheni edition is, the organisers say, part of a series of regional forums that began in Soroca in April 2026 and is announced to continue in Bălți, Cahul and Orhei. The platform said a resolution addressed to Moldova’s Parliament would be adopted at the end of the forum; its text was not public at the time of writing.
Triunghi.md was unable to confirm from independent sources how many people the forum drew, who spoke, or what the resolution contains. The material available before publication comes from the event announcement and from posts by some of the participants.
Who is behind it
Two of those who publicly signalled their participation in Ungheni are well-known figures of the unionist camp. Valentin Dolganiuc, the president of the National Reunification Platform, posted a photo from the event on his Facebook page along with the message “O Limbă – Limba Română, un Tricolor – Tricolorul Românesc, o Națiune – Națiunea Română, o Țară – ROMÂNIA!” (“One Language — the Romanian language, one Flag — the Romanian tricolour, one Nation — the Romanian Nation, one Country — ROMANIA!”). Dolganiuc was a deputy in Moldova’s first Parliament and is one of the signatories of the 1991 Declaration of Independence; since 2024 he has led the “ACASĂ” National Reunification Party.
Arina Spătaru, the president of Moldova’s ALDE party and a former deputy, also shared material from Ungheni, with the note “Români cu verticalitate” (“Romanians who stand tall”). The presence of the two at the forum follows, for now, only from their own posts.
The initiative also has a political dimension, not just a civic one: for the parliamentary elections of September 2025, “ACASĂ” allied with the National Liberal Party in the National Union Bloc.
A divisive subject
Although the forum speaks of “reunification”, union with Romania is not on the official agenda of any government. In Chișinău, the government’s stated course is integration into the European Union; President Maia Sandu said in early 2026 that, at a possible referendum, she would personally vote for union, but added that there is “no majority” for it and that the state’s priority remains EU accession. In Bucharest, President Nicușor Dan said that union “depends strictly on the citizens of the Republic of Moldova”, and that Romania’s priority is supporting its neighbour’s European path.
Nor do the polls show a majority for union inside the country. The Public Opinion Barometer run by the Institute for Public Policy in September 2025 put roughly 33% of respondents in favour of union and about 46% against; an iData poll in 2026 gave around 41% for and 49% against. A more favourable study, 44% for and 39% against, was carried out by a group that openly promotes the idea of union, ATES Research, and should be read with that caveat. Support is higher in the diaspora and has risen slightly over the past year, but the figures vary widely from one pollster to another, depending on methodology and on whether the diaspora is included.
The subject also has declared opponents. The Socialists led by Igor Dodon have run campaigns against union, under slogans such as “The Republic of Moldova is not Romania”; in Moscow, diplomats called the idea “absorption”. And academic voices that are not pro-Russian point out that union is not on the governments’ agenda and would involve serious obstacles, including referendums in both states and a revision of Romania’s Constitution.
Why Ungheni
The choice of city is no accident. Ungheni is the main border crossing between the two banks of the Prut and a place charged with the symbolism of closeness to Romania: it was here, in May 1990, that the “Bridge of Flowers” took place, when thousands of people crossed the Prut; the gas pipeline linking Moldova’s energy system to Romania’s also runs through Ungheni, and a new road bridge — part of a future motorway towards Iași — is being built across the river.
For the people of Ungheni, the concrete stake in the relationship with Romania has more to do with these things — energy, infrastructure, jobs, European funds — than with a political decision on union, which for now remains a project of one part of the political class. The forum also fell at a moment when the real institutional process was the European one: the day before, on 13 June, EU states approved the opening of the first group of chapters in Moldova’s accession talks, and the intergovernmental conference in Brussels was scheduled for 15 June.