CONTRADICTIONS OF INTERSTATE LEGISLATION REGULATING THE SECTOR OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF CURRENT CONSTITUTIONAL REGULATIONS

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the main provisions of the local self-government provided by the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, which were not expressed or fully implemented at the level of the national legislation of the Republic of Armenia. The main goal of the article is to identify and highlight the legal contradictions between the Constitution and the Law on Local Self-Government, to present the constitutional norms that have not been implemented in domestic legislative acts. The article specifically refers to the legislative contradictions between the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia and the Law "On Local Self-Government", restrictions on the activities of communities and their local self-government bodies, as well as the need to eliminate them. These issues were also discussed in the light of the provisions of the European Charter of Local SelfGovernment, emphasizing the principle of exclusivity and completeness of the powers of local self-government bodies. In the article, according to individual components, the legal entity of public law, listening to the opinion of the community during the merger or division of communities, community problems and the powers of local self-government bodies, the status of the "Local Self-Government" law, the responsibility of the community leader before the council of elders, and the sources of financing defined for the purpose of solving the community's mandatory problems were presented, legal and professional control toolkits and the constitutional regulations defined in terms of inter-community associations and the problems of their implementation at the legislative level. In that context, the article made specific recommendations to improve the current legislation regulating the local self government sector.