News about Municipalities

The Romanian National Company for Road Construction Investments (CNIR) announced the award of a contract for the design and construction of the 4th section of the Târgu-Mureş-Iaşi-Ungheni highway (A8). These are the last kilometers of the highway to be built on the territory of Romania, as well as the first section of the highway that will cross the Prut River and go five kilometers through the territory of the Republic of Moldova.

The People’s Assembly of Gagauzia at an extraordinary session on April 22 adopted a statement on the inadmissibility of obstructing the elections in the autonomy. The document will be sent to the Parliament and the Government of the Republic of Moldova, as well as to the Superior Council of Magistracy, the Court of Appeal of the South, judicial instances on the territory of Gagauzia ATU.

The government backs the parliamentary initiative on the re-introduction of the minimum rates of the real estate tax, as well as the transfer of the right to local public administration bodies to establish exemptions or exemptions on the payment of real estate tax for certain categories of citizens.

On April 21, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development organized a public consultation on the National Program for the Development of the Water Supply and Sewerage Sector 2026-2030, which sets out the government’s vision and priorities for the development of the water supply and sewerage sector in the coming years.

The process of voluntary merger of mayoralties cannot be completed by December. The experience of already completed mergers has shown that the whole procedure takes more than a year. This is the opinion of Făleşti mayor Aliaksandr Severin.

This significant economic disparity compared to the Moldovan average may become a determining factor of electoral preferences in the region.

The reform concept developed by CALM will be presented in the coming days. According to the organization, broad discussions will be organized after the document is agreed upon with the mayors.

In a month’s time, on May 17, local elections and referendums will be held in 12 localities of the country. The most polling stations will be opened in Orhei municipality.

This opinion was expressed during the discussion of amendments to the Electoral Code of the Republic of Moldova by Gheorghe Leichu, deputy chairman of the People’s Assembly of Gagauzia. The first consultations on the package of amendments proposed to the Electoral Code were held on April 15, 2026. The discussion was organized by the CEC of Moldova.

The Mayor’s Office of Făleşti has announced that it will compensate the increase in the fare for public transport in the city at the expense of the local budget. This will allow residents not to bear in full the new costs requested by the carrier against the background of rising fuel prices.

The reform of the local public administration can be realized in two stages. This opinion was expressed by PAS deputy Vasile Gradinaru. According to him, the liquidation of districts is a justified measure, but their complete abolition is limited by constitutional aspects.

The financial incentives offered by the government to implement administrative-territorial reform are necessary, but not sufficient. Equally important is the impact it will have on local autonomy and community representation.

District chairpersons understand the need for local governance reform, but their views on the administrative structure proposed by the authorities differ.

As part of the administrative-territorial reform, the authorities promise to revise the distribution of VAT and personal income tax.

A direct railroad route will connect Kiev and Chisinau International Airport. This was announced on Saturday, April 11, by Ukraine’s state-owned railway company Ukrzaliznytsia.

The White House administration has unveiled the design for a 76-meter (250-foot) arch that President Donald Trump wants to erect in the U.S. capital.

On Easter night public transport of the capital will work on a special schedule, and after midnight travel for passengers will be free.

Administrative-territorial reform should be streamlined as part of a large-scale fiscal decentralization reform, economists at the Expert-Grup think tank recommend.

Parliament passed the first reading of a draft law on amendments to some normative acts (“improving the mechanism of voluntary unification of administrative-territorial units”). It will allow decisions on the unification of mayoralties to be made by a simple majority of votes of local councilors instead of two-thirds as it is now.

In March, the government allocated more than 87 million lei through the National Fund for Regional and Local Development (FNDRL) for the implementation of the programs “European Village” (II edition) and “Europe Nearby”. The total volume of investments amounted to 65.24 million lei.