News about Municipalities

The government has announced the first stimulus payments made through a voluntary association of city governments. According to official data, 81 city governments received the funds.

In the municipality of Cahul, a new smart street lighting system and a fully renovated kindergarten have been put into operation.

On Monday, the press office of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the Russian Foreign Ministry of its decision to expel one of the staff members of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest.

A few days before the deadline for voluntary consolidation, the Congress of Local Authorities of Moldova (CALM) stated that representatives of the State Chancellery and a number of lawmakers are pressuring mayors and local elected officials to make decisions on municipal consolidation within a tight timeframe.

The mayor of the capital continues to comment on the RESTART education reform. The government intends to create more than 30 agencies under the education departments, warns Mayor Ion Ceban.

UNDP (PNUD Moldova) and the European Union are beginning to use “green bonds” to finance pilot energy communities in the towns of Roșcani, Călinești, Leova, and Geamăna (Roșcani, Călinești, Leova, and Geamăna). These specialized municipal bonds are viewed as promising financial instruments for local infrastructure and the energy transition.

The RESTART education reform is designed to reduce inequalities in access to quality education for students in all communities. This was stated by Minister of Education and Research Dan Perciun during the parliamentary review of the bill prior to its first-reading vote.

Construction work on the new transfer station with a waste sorting line in the Ciocana sector (Lot II), carried out as part of the municipal project “Chisinau Solid Waste,” is 60% complete.

Moldova will need approximately 2.04 billion euros to modernize its sewer and wastewater treatment systems in accordance with EU requirements. Due to the significant costs involved, the reform will be implemented in phases, and some of these costs may affect rates in the future.

As of the end of the first half of 2026, the State Register of Legal Entities listed 2,492 business entities from the Transnistrian region and the municipality of Bendery. Compared to the end of 2025, their number increased by 14.

A week before the deadline for voluntary mergers, another 165 municipalities decided to merge. This was announced by Government Secretary-General Alexei Buz. 

The Chisinau City Hall invites residents of the capital to participate in the “City Barometer,” launched as part of the process to update Chisinau’s General Urban Development Plan (GUDP) through 2040.

The heads of localities in Gagauzia adopted a declaration following their meetings with Maia Sandu, President of the Republic of Moldova, and members of the People’s Assembly of Gagauzia.

This was announced by Government Secretary-General Alexei Buzu as he presented today another group of villages that have decided to merge and establish a single municipal administration.

Termoelectrica acknowledged that the water in Chisinau’s rivers had temporarily turned green due to repair and testing work on the heating networks carried out in the Ryshkanovka sector.

The National Road Administration (AND) has announced a tender for the construction of more than 5.2 kilometers of sidewalks in seven localities in Moldova. The estimated cost of the project is 9.57 million lei, excluding VAT, which translates to an average cost of approximately 1,840 lei per linear meter of sidewalk.

Apă-Canal Chișinău states that there are currently no threats to the water supply in Moldova, including the capital.

If you were to trace the entire course of the Moldovan crisis as a single chain of events, it would look like a closed system without a single safety mechanism.

A new elevator has been put into service at the Telenești Health Center as part of a modernization project costing over 1 million lei. Most of the funding for the project was provided by the National Health Insurance Company (CNAM) from the fund for the development and modernization of public healthcare providers.

Ion Ceban accused the central government of seeking to curtail Chisinau’s autonomy. The mayor expressed his opinion regarding the “European Economy, Effective State” program presented by prime ministerial candidate Vasile Tofan.