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General view of a rural settlement in the Ungheni district, with houses, greenery and hills in the background.
LOCAL

Petrești Council approves amalgamation with Todirești — three months after unanimous rejection

On August 25, in an extraordinary session, the Petrești Local Council approved the voluntary amalgamation with Todirești — the same proposal it had rejected in May, when approximately 300 citizens had also voted against. A consultation meeting is scheduled for September 6 at the Todirești House of Culture. Meanwhile, Todirești has three amalgamation initiation decisions simultaneously in force, each with a different partner.

Ion Calmis·28 August 2026· News
An open cardboard folder with blank sheets, a partly folded road map, a ruler, a pencil and a cup of coffee on a wooden desk, in morning light.
NATIONAL

The new Government's programme names Ungheni five times, all of them on transport. The free zone never appears

Parliament voted on Tuesday the programme of the Cabinet led by Vasile Tofan, and on Wednesday the Government took the oath. In the document's 147 pages, Ungheni district appears five times — the motorway, the railway to Iași, the bridge over the Prut, the link to Chișinău and the Berești logistics hub — all of them on the transport axis — three of them with a 2029 horizon — and with a cautious verb: “first works advanced”, not completed. The free economic zone, which holds almost one in six salaried jobs in the district, is not mentioned even once.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
A blank official form and a pen on a kitchen table covered with a flowered oilcloth, next to a cup of tea and a pair of knitted booties.
NATIONAL

What the bill approved by the Government would mean for some 74 mothers in Ungheni district: maternity benefit from the father's income, only from 2028

The Government approved on Wednesday a bill that closes an old inequality: today an uninsured woman receives maternity benefit calculated from her husband's income, but not from the income of the child's father, if the two are not married. The bill changes that — provided the father acknowledges paternity and has a contribution period. Three things are not visible from the press release: the provisions enter into force on 1 January 2028, the concrete procedure is not yet written, and the Ministry of Finance issued a negative opinion twice, saying there is no source for the roughly 170 million lei.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
The interior of a small, empty courtroom, with wooden benches, a videoconference screen on the wall and an open laptop next to a stack of case files tied with string.
NATIONAL

What would change at the Ungheni Court if documents were filed electronically only — and who stays on paper

The Government has approved a draft law obliging authorities, companies, individual entrepreneurs, the legal professions and natural persons assisted by a lawyer to file procedural documents exclusively in electronic form, and turning videoconference into a rule rather than an exception. A person who appears in court alone stays on paper — but the moment they hire a lawyer, they automatically move into the electronic regime. At the Ungheni Court, which serves the Ungheni and Nisporeni districts from a single building, the electronic system has been in pilot use since 2022 and recorded, in 2024, a single request for access to case files — compared with 107 at the Bălți Court.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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