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NATIONAL

276 million lei for the six mergers in Ungheni district. The municipal group takes 157.5

On 4 August the Government said how much it gives per head for mayoralty mergers: 3,000 lei. That figure is only the first term of the real formula. Applied to Ungheni district, with the National Bureau of Statistics table by locality, the three incentives yield 276.7 million lei for the six amalgamation groups — 157.5 million for the group around the municipality alone. It also explains the figure of 278 million announced on 31 July by the head of the Ungheni Territorial Office. The press release does not mention that second term, and the largest part of the money is conditional on a law that has not yet been published.

Ion Calmis·5 August 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Bar chart: the five amalgamation groups in Ungheni district, showing the number of administrative-territorial units and the population of each on 1 January 2026, plus the six mayoralties outside the five groups — among them Bușila, Chirileni and Negurenii Vechi, which have a group of their own, and Petrești, which rejected amalgamation.
LOCAL

Five amalgamation groups in Ungheni: 27 mayoralties inside, six outside them

The five amalgamation groups take in 27 of the 33 mayoralties in Ungheni district; six ended up outside them — three because they started a group of their own, one because it rejected the merger with reasons given. All the groups counted their population using 2024 figures — some 2,000 more people than there are today, with no effect on the legal threshold of 3,000 inhabitants.

Ion Calmis·1 August 2026· Analysis