Conceptual approaches regarding the reorganization of territorial administrative units in the Republic of Moldova

Abstract

The administrative-territorial transformations are determined by the demographic decline, the cause being massive emigration or migration within the state, by the precarious state of the infrastructure and the economy of the respective localities. The small number of population per UAT limits the financial resources and consequently the institutional and administrative capacity of the LPA to fulfill its responsibilities. In the conditions created, considering the fact that some of the rural localities have been left without inhabitants or have a very small number of inhabitants, the idea of amalgamating the administrative-territorial units was launched. The structural reform in the form of the merger of local authorities will change the map of local administration. This reform, which is initially to be voluntary, amalgamates two or more local authorities into a new political and economic organizational entity.