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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
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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the test case remains Cornești: a decision the Office considers unlawful is set to reach the courts if it is not repealed.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
Public notice board with paper announcements at the entrance of a small-town mayor's office in Moldova.
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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
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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
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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