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An open wallet on a modest kitchen table, with a few Moldovan lei banknotes and coins, next to a bill and a cup of coffee; warm morning light
NATIONAL

What the 2027 fiscal policy would bring an Ungheni employee: 1,236 lei a year, but higher VAT on agriculture

On 6 August the government unveiled the draft fiscal policy for 2027 and sent it out for consultation. The most visible measure for employees: the tax-free portion of income rises from 29,700 to 40,000 lei a year — about 1,236 lei extra stay each year in the pocket of every worker earning above the threshold. In Ungheni district, with 16,349 employees, that adds up to as much as 20 million lei a year. But the same policy raises VAT on agriculture, accommodation and tourism from 8 to 12%, and Ungheni is an agricultural district. Nothing has been adopted yet: the draft is only now entering debate.

Ion Calmis·8 August 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Rows of older cars parked on an asphalt lot in a provincial town, with low-rise blocks and houses on a hill in the background — illustrative image.
LOCAL

34,700 vehicles registered in Ungheni raion, of which 23,527 are cars

At the newsroom's request, the Public Services Agency confirmed the raion's vehicle fleet as of 1 July 2026: 34,700 vehicles, of which 23,527 are cars — over two thirds of the total. These are the figures on which the new homologation law rests, though from 2029 it will apply only to cars brought in after that date. Who will carry out homologation in Ungheni and what it will cost remains, the ASP says, «premature» to determine.

Ion Calmis·21 July 2026· Analysis
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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
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
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
Printed documents with tables of figures spread across a desk, with a glass of clear water and a water meter in the foreground, in cold morning light
PUBLIC SERVICES

Apă-Canal Ungheni responds to the water-tariff article: five clarifications, no figure disproved

SRL „Apă-Canal Ungheni” has published five clarifications on our article about the 40.01 lei/m³ tariff, in force since 14 July. Checked against the documents, they disprove no figure: two repeat figures the article had already published, one recalculates the electricity decrease on a different basis — 19.1% instead of 19.4%, the same conclusion — and the response also brings new data, which we publish: the structure of the roughly 140 employees, the history of the electricity price and the waste-water repumping stations. The main findings remain without comment. And three days after the tariff took effect, the operator's tariff page and the ANRE registry were still displaying the old price.

Ion Calmis·16 July 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
The hands of an elderly person holding a mobile phone on a kitchen table, beside a cup and a notebook
NATIONAL

«Takes note»: what Parliament actually decided about phone scams — and why the anonymous SIM card stays legal until 2027

On 2 July, Parliament adopted a decision on the report of the inquiry commission into phone scams. We read its text in the state registry: article 1 says it «takes note» of the report. The National Anti-Fraud Focal Point has not been established — it has been recommended, and the government has 90 days, until 30 September, to report on what it has done. The two bills that would end the anonymity of SIM cards and oblige operators to block spoofed calls are still in first reading. Meanwhile, one thing already works: over 80% of the attempts reported to 112 were foiled.

Ion Calmis·15 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
A disused rural medical building with broken windows and crumbling plaster, in a yard overgrown with weeds
LOCAL

840,000 lei from three disused medical buildings. Nobody wanted the former hospital in Bușila

On 23 June, Ungheni District Council put three property complexes up for auction. The primary document reveals what they actually were: all three are former health facilities — a former family doctors' office at Curtoaia, the former physiotherapy block at Cornești, and the former hospital at Bușila. The first two sold for 840,000 lei, and the smallest of them fetched 4.7 times its valuation. For the former hospital, not a single bidder registered — and the regulations allow it to fall, in time, to half the price now being asked. The buyers' names are not public.

Ion Calmis·15 July 2026· AnalysisWHAT'S AT STAKE