The councils of Petrești and Todirești approved their merger on 31 August, the last day the government had announced for voluntary files. Of the district's 33 town halls, 32 now have a merger decision published in the state register.
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.
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.
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.
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.
