Damascus-SANA
Like any experience, it carried positive goals and objectives, but with the passage of time it was marred by negatives as a result of changing circumstances and data. The idea of local administration in Syria became an urgent need for development, and its law issued since the 1970s in 1971 needed to be amended. The issuance of Legislative Decree No. 107 of 2011 on the Local Administration Law was the pivotal point in The history of the local administration in recent years and the most important step in the way of increasing the effectiveness of its tools.
The qualitative shift formed by the local administration law in force since 10-1-2011 was embodied in granting municipalities more independence and expanding the margin of administrative decentralization in them by granting them the powers to manage community affairs, i.e. contributing to raising the standard of living for citizens through the establishment of projects and creating job opportunities, each in his area, in addition to alleviating Burdens on citizens by providing services to them locally, especially in remote areas and far from city centers.
This law is what clarified to us the details of the local councils, their tasks and powers, and the form of a shift in their work, as it was stated in the second chapter of it in Article “12” that every administrative unit must have a council whose headquarters is the center of the unit and consists of elected members according to the provisions of the General Elections Law by general, secret, direct and equal suffrage .
Based on the mentioned qualitative law, the local councils have become linked to all the details and service parts that exist in each large or small area, which is what was stated in Article “30” of the law that the local councils are competent, within the scope of the state’s general policy, to run the affairs of the local administration in it and all actions that lead to Developing the governorate “economically, socially, culturally and urbanly” in line with sustainable and balanced development in the areas of planning, industry, agriculture, economy, trade, education, culture, antiquities, tourism, transportation, roads, irrigation, drinking water, sewage, electricity, health, social affairs, labor, services, facilities, quarries, mineral wealth, disaster management, firefighting, traffic management and regulation, and vacation centers Market, environment, sports, youth and joint projects between administrative units.
It is noteworthy that Decree No. “107” of the Local Administration Law was issued on 8/23/2011 and was considered effective from 1/10/2011.
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