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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
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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About fifteen people, representatives of local administrations, sit on chairs around an oval table in a bright meeting room, listening to a presentation.
LOCAL

Not just the municipality: a second wave of town-hall mergers is forming around Pîrlița in the Ungheni district

While the municipality of Ungheni negotiates a union with ten surrounding localities, a second nucleus of voluntary amalgamation is taking shape in the west of the district: Pîrlița, together with Agronomovca, Alexeevca, Rădenii Vechi and Teșcureni, held a second joint working meeting on the subject. Around the table were the working groups of the five town halls and the Government's territorial representative, Ion Poia. Administrative reform is no longer an abstract discussion — concrete maps are being drawn.

Ion Calmis·3 July 2026· News
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