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Infographic with two groups of bars drawn to the same scale: above, the energy-efficiency procurements of public institutions in Ungheni raion, led by public lighting; below, their energy bill over the same period, dominated by electricity and heat.
LOCAL

19.16 million lei on energy in the schools and town halls of Ungheni raion. On audits, 74,500

Ungheni Raion Council signed the cooperation memorandum with the LEEN Moldova programme on 30 July. Public procurement data supply the figures: 19.16 million lei of energy contracted by the raion's town halls, lyceums and gymnasiums since 2023, 5.69 million invested in public lighting and 4.09 in boiler houses, and on thermal insulation actually carried out — not one leu out of these procurements. The energy audit, the first step of the method, appears twice in the whole raion, 74,500 lei. The memorandum asks for no membership fee, and its text is public: of the four signatories in the raion, two published it — Costuleni and the Raion Council.

Ion Calmis·31 July 2026· AnalysisWHAT'S AT STAKE
A renovated school building with a freshly thermally-insulated façade and a sign indicating public funding.
LOCAL

Whose money pays for the school renovations: in Costuleni, the district presents millions from the government as its own investments

The Ungheni District Council presented on Facebook the investments in the Todirești and Costuleni gymnasiums. The figures check out in documents — but at Costuleni, out of the roughly six-million-lei package, the district's own money is only the paving (531 thousand); the rest — the thermal insulation and the sanitary facilities — comes from the government and from the Ministry of Education. At Todirești, by contrast, the money really is the district's. All of it, five months before the reform takes these schools out of the District Council's subordination.

Ion Calmis·25 July 2026· Explainer
Moldovan leu banknotes and a payslip on a desk, in morning light.
NATIONAL

Public-sector pay would rise 10–30% from September: what the new law, still in consultation, would mean for the thousands of Ungheni people on the state payroll

The government has put out for public consultation the draft of a new public-sector pay law — increases of 10 to 30% for around 170,000 employees, from 1 September 2026. 'Up to 30%' is the ceiling, not the rule: the biggest rises go to the categories left furthest behind. For a district like Ungheni, where the average wage is almost 3,700 lei below the national average and thousands work in schools, hospitals and town halls, the reform hits the family budget directly. But it is still only a draft — and a parallel reform trims leave days.

Ion Calmis·24 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
A Centru Development Agency representative in a hi-vis vest studies plans with two men at a construction site; behind them, the metal frames of the new Ungheni market’s pavilions.
PUBLIC SERVICES

ADR Centru checked three sites in Ungheni: the market, the French Park and a 35-million-lei road to Plaiul Fagului

The Centru Regional Development Agency — the body through which the state spends money from the National Fund for Regional and Local Development — inspected three building sites in Ungheni district on 18 June. Alongside the already-known agri-food market and French Park, a third project surfaced: rebuilding the access road to the “Plaiul Fagului” reserve, worth about 35 million lei. Together it is tens of millions in public money — which the official statement no longer puts into figures.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· News
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