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Ten localities, 42,000 residents: Ungheni Municipal Council votes to amalgamate into a single municipality

On July 24, the Ungheni Municipal Council met in an extraordinary session and, according to the Mayor's Office, adopted the decisions that open the way toward 'a new model of administrative organization' — the city's own step in the voluntary amalgamation with nine neighboring localities, one of the largest clusters of its kind in the country: 10 administrative-territorial units and about 42,316 residents, with Ungheni as the center. The text of the municipal decision had not yet been published in the state register at the time of this article.