Two agricultural plots belonging to the village of Teșcureni, with a total area of 20.18 hectares, were put up for sale by public auction this summer. No buyer registered. The finding appears in the very text of the decision by which the Teșcureni Village Council changed direction on September 4: the same plots are now being put up for auction for lease, for one year.
The preamble of Decision nr. 6/1 of September 4 cites as the reason for the change the fact that, at the sale-purchase auction of the two plots, “no participant registered” (here and below, quotations from the acts are translated from the Romanian original). The decision is published in the State Register of Local Acts.
What was decided, step by step
June 24. Through Decision nr. 4/2, the council accepts the “submission for sale-purchase through a public «open-outcry» auction” of two agricultural plots owned by the village, held in the private domain and located outside the built-up area: the plot with cadastral number 9233101.108 (10.6727 ha) and the plot 9233101.109 (9.5047 ha). The reason cited in the preamble: “the need to ensure the efficient use of the mayoralty’s land in order to increase the mayoralty’s revenues”. The decision takes note of two valuation reports, issued nine days earlier, on June 15. Eight councillors voted in favour, with no votes against and no abstentions.
August 3. The village mayor, Gheorghe Colțișor, issues Disposition nr. 21 and appoints the council’s secretary, Ina Rusu, as auctioneer — the official who organises and conducts the procedure. The starting price is set by the auction commission, chaired by the mayor. This is the executive step showing that the procedure was actually launched.
September 4. The council notes the absence of participants and adopts two decisions in the same session. The first, nr. 6/1, puts the two agricultural plots up for auction for a lease with a term of one year. The second, nr. 6/2, puts up for sale two other plots, this time with the land use “for construction”: 9233201.356 (0.5000 ha) and 9233201.358 (0.2328 ha), valued on August 26. Both decisions passed with seven votes in favour.
The areas stated in the decisions match the data in the cadastral register, which records all four parcels as public property held in the private domain. The cadastral register does not name the owner; that the assets belong to the village is stated by the council’s decisions. The distinction of regime matters — assets in the private domain may be sold or granted for use, unlike those in the public domain — and the sale decisions base their exposure to auction on Law nr. 121/2007.
The price of the 20 hectares does not appear in the decisions
The decisions name the valuation reports by number and date, but do not contain the amounts, and the reports are not annexed to the published decisions. The initial sale price is to be set by the auction commission, which, according to the decisions, is also required to publish the informative notice in the Official Gazette and in the local press. From the published acts it is therefore impossible to learn either how much the 20 hectares were valued at, or the starting price of the auction at which no participant registered.
Nor do the decisions contain the date of the sale auction — only the finding that, by September 4, no participant had registered. Neither can it be established from the published acts why no one registered.
The context: nine mayoralties out of 33
Teșcureni is not an isolated case. In the State Register of Local Acts, between January 1 and September 8, 2026, there are 22 acts in the “Organisation of auctions” field, issued by nine mayoralties out of the 33 in the Ungheni district. Teșcureni is second by number of published acts in this field, with four. First is Sculeni, with five acts. Among them, one cancels in June the results of an auction for the sale of a plot — the only act of this kind among the 22 (Decision 04/06 of June 29). The reasons for the cancellation do not follow from the register’s listing.
The comparison measures the number of published acts, not the areas, the amounts or the number of plots: those appear only in the text of the acts. Teșcureni’s four acts are exactly those described above: three of them are stages of the same procedure — the June exposure, the appointment of the auctioneer and the pivot towards a lease — while the fourth, Decision 6/2, opens a new sale, of two other plots.
Why this matters for Ungheni residents
For the village’s residents, the immediate stake is twofold. On the one hand, the 20 hectares remain the village’s for now, and a lease for one year means a new auction, one in which bidders compete for use, not for ownership. The acts do not show a withdrawal from the sale: Decision 6/1 puts the plots up for lease for one year, without ruling on the sale. On the other hand, the construction plots in decision nr. 6/2 are a definitive sale: once sold, they leave the village’s patrimony.
The decisions may be challenged through a prior request, within 30 days of communication, at the Teșcureni village mayoralty.