Constituency No. 16 comprises the town of Ungheni together with other 15 settlements in Ungheni district. Voters will be casting their ballots at the polling stations 16/1 through 16/46. The candidate to poll most votes takes the constituency regardless of the turnout.
The first candidate listed on the ballot is the Democratic Party’s Ludmila Guzun, economist by training and incumbent district head of Ungheni. Previously Ludmila Guzun was deputy mayor of Ungheni town before being appointed state representative to the district branch of the state-run communications company Moldtelecom. In the last two years, the candidate’s family earned over 324,000 lei in salaries and 38,000 lei from other sources. The family also owns a building lot, an apartment and a car.
The second is the Shor Party’s Antonina Baraniuc, teacher by training. She works as a secretary at the Shor Party. For the last two years, the candidate and her husband declared salary incomes of over 57 thousand lei and over 61 thousand lei in pensions. She owns a share of two agricultural plots, a building plot, shares of two apartments, a house, a commercial space and four cars.
The third is the Socialist Party’s Ghenadi Mitriuc, outgoing MP and lawyer by training. He was deputy mayor of Ungheni and was twice elected councilman in the city council. For the last two years, the candidate declared over 438,000 lei earned as an MP’s salary and 20,000 lei from selling two cars. The candidate owns 6 plots of land, an apartment, a commercial space, a residential house, a garage, two unfinished buildings and seven cars. The candidate also declared full ownership of two private companies.
The fourth is the Party of Communists’ Halarampie Chirilov, a commodities specialist by training and currently the president of the Ungheni Cooperatives Consumption Union. For the last two years, the candidate and his wife declared over 441 thousand lei in salaries, 681 thousand lei from sources other than salaries, over 205 thousand lei in pensions and over 21 thousands of lei in fees received for being an Ungheni District councilman. The family owns 4 building lots and two agricultural plots, two apartments, three commercial spaces, a garage, a warehouse and an unfinished building.
The fifth is ACUM electoral bloc’s Octavian Ţicu, a historian and currently scientific coordinator at the Institute of History, associate professor at the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the USM. For the last two years, the Ticus declared salary incomes of approximately 231 thousand lei, over 436 thousand lei from teaching or creative activities and over 32 thousand lei from other sources. The candidate owns an apartment, a car, and 83,000 lei and 2,300 euros in bank accounts.
The final slot on the ballot is occupied by the Liberal Party’s Alexandru Brînză, an engineer by training and currently deputy head of Ungheni district. In the last two years the candidate and his wife earned 892,000 lei in salaries and over 77,000 lei from other sources. The candidate owns a building lot, an apartment, an unfinished building and two cars.
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The rubric “Know your candidates!” presents competitors running in each single-member constituency in order of the slot assigned on the ballot.