Participation of inhabitants of municipalities in meetings of Municipal Councils and their modification in the Rules of Procedure of Local Councils of city districts of Košice

• Main Author: Jana Volochová
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki Euroregionalnej im. Alcide De Gasperi 2021-01-01
• Series: Journal of Modern Science
• Subjects: inhabitans; self- government; rules of procedure; participation; direct democracy
• Online Access: https://www.jomswsge.com/Participation-of-inhabitants-of-municipalities-in-meetings-of-Municipal-Councils,117847,0,2.html

Objectives The aim of the paper is to point out the possibilities of the city district inhabitants to actively participate in decision-making on important issues of the functioning and development of the city district, which should be adjusted, in the Rules of Procedure through the analysis of the current legislation, using literature and research of the Rules of the Procedure of individual city districts in Košice Material and methods analysis Results There is a serious lack in current legislation, which could be considered as considerable disproportion, in the case of giving words to individual items on the agenda of a municipalities to a resident, a deputy of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, a deputy of the European Parliament, or a deputy of other state organ. Conclusions In our opinion, the lawgiver should in the Act on Municipal Establishment, as in the case of the above-mentioned persons, regulate the participation of the inhabitants of the municipality in the meetings of the Municipal Council, or set the conditions under which the citizen of the municipality must be given the word, which the municipalities will have to obligatorily list in their Rules of Procedure. On the other hand, we do not support the idea that the word should be granted to a resident of a municipality at a Local Council meeting whenever he / she asks for it, as it could result in disrupting the peaceful and smooth conduct of the negotiations. However, an appropriate solution would to set a limited period of time in the debate on the individual items of the agenda, within which the inhabitants of the municipality may also be involved. This solution would be adequate because the inhabitants of the municipality are considered as a source of power and their decisions determine the elected bodies of the municipality.