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A cadastral plan spread out on a worn wooden table, its corners held down by two stones. Beside it, a stack of files tied with string, a wooden ruler, a pen, a heap of coins and a few banknotes. Warm morning light through a window with a thin curtain.
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
An elevated view, in the warm light of morning, over a provincial town and the surrounding villages — houses with yards and vineyards, a public building with a flag at the centre, gentle hills and a river valley in the background
LOCAL

July 31 is not a legal deadline for mergers, but an “operational” one — the State Chancellery confirms

The date of July 31, 2026, invoked publicly as the deadline for the “voluntary” amalgamation of communes, is “an operational term set by the State Chancellery” and is not expressly provided for by Law 225/2023 — an official reply from the Ungheni Territorial Office, addressed to our newsroom, shows. Missing it does not abolish the right to merge, but it takes the locality out of the current legislative package and moves it into normative amalgamation, top-down, mandatory for town halls under 3.000 residents. In Ungheni district, the test case remains Cornești: a decision the Office considers unlawful is set to reach the courts if it is not repealed.

Ion Calmis·20 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Hall of a cultural center in a Moldovan village, with rows of empty chairs prepared for a public assembly, warm afternoon light through the windows.
LOCAL

General assembly in Costuleni on Sunday at 16.00, on the single commune. Cioropcani asks its residents online: “Do you agree?”

The amalgamation consultation is coming down to residents' level. The Costuleni mayor's office — part of the largest commune proposed in the district, formed around Ungheni municipality, with around 42.300 residents — calls the village to the Cultural Center on Sunday, July 19, and has put into circulation the vision document of the new administrative unit. In parallel, the Cioropcani mayor's office, from the Sculeni cluster, has launched a bilingual online questionnaire on the draft decision and the development priorities. The council votes are scheduled by the end of the month.

Ion Calmis·18 July 2026· News
Public notice board with paper announcements at the entrance of a small-town mayor's office in Moldova.
LOCAL

The Cornești–Bumbăta merger draft is public: the administrative centre would be Cornești town, recommendations accepted until July 28

Draft decision no. 7/1, published on the official platform particip.gov.md together with the consultation announcement, provides that the administrative centre of the future unit be Cornești town and that the name remain unchanged. Public hearings took place on July 16 and 17, in Cornești and Romanovca; recommendations are accepted until July 28 — through a form, by e-mail, by post or at the town hall's premises. The details of the process were confirmed by the town hall in an official reply sent to the newsroom.

Ion Calmis·18 July 2026· News
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A road descending through a Moldovan locality with houses and small apartment blocks, a road sign seen from behind in the foreground, hills and a river in the background
LOCAL

Cornești's second merger attempt goes to public consultation: with Bumbăta, the new perimeter reaches 4.064 residents

The Cornești town hall has opened a public consultation on the draft decision for the amalgamation with Cornești village and Bumbăta village — recommendations are accepted until July 28, through an online form. The new perimeter clears the legal threshold of 3.000 residents by more than a thousand. The race is tight: the Government has announced that the voluntary phase closes on July 31, and the councils still have to vote on the final decision.

Ion Calmis·17 July 2026· News
An administrative sign at the entrance to a locality, on a country road, with hills and houses in the background
LOCAL

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
Illustration: the hall of a rural village culture house set up for a public assembly, with rows of chairs and a projection screen at the front, with no people in the frame.
LOCAL

The Pîrlița-area merger reaches the public: consultations today in Rădenii Vechi and Pîrlița

In the west of the Ungheni district, administrative reform is moving from working meetings to people. The five mayoralties negotiating a merger — Pîrlița, Agronomovca, Alexeevca, Rădenii Vechi and Teșcureni — have reached the stage of consulting citizens. Today, 7 July, public assemblies are being held to present the „Development Vision” of the future administrative unit. In Rădenii Vechi, the assembly is this evening, at 6 p.m.

Ion Calmis·7 July 2026· News
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