Social and Legal Studios

Abstract

The issues of the legal status of local self-government authorities in Ukraine are addressed in the article. The peculiarities of organization and functioning of local self-government are considered. Great attention is paid to the legal bases of the activity of local self-government authorities; a system of principles among which the principles of the combination of local and state interests is singed out; state support and guarantees of local self-government; accountability and responsibility. Local self-government in Ukraine is the right guaranteed by the state and the real ability of a territorial community – residents of a village or a voluntary association of villagers, villages, towns, independently or under the responsibility of bodies and officials of local self-government, to resolve issues of local significance within the constitution Ukraine and the laws of Ukraine. The Constitution guarantees citizens of Ukraine the right to elect and be elected to local self-government authoroties, the right to participate in local referendums, the right to equal access to the service in local self-government bodies, the right to send individual or collective written appeals or to personally address bodies and officials of local self-government

Keywords: local self-government authorities, legal status, territorial community, principles, democracy

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