LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT IN SLOVENIA

According to the European Charter of Local Self-Government (ECLS) the right to local self-government is one of the basic democratic principles in the member states of CE. It means that the inhabitants of the local communities have the right to decide on essential part of the local affairs of public relevance. This right is implemented by the democratic election of representative bodies as well as directly by referendums, at the meetings of local residents, by the civil initiative and by other ways.

Local self-government in Europe is a tradition which is more than hundred years old. Very diverse and various regulations are concerned. The models of local self -government vary among themselves according to volume, structure, and tasks and also according to relations towards a state. Their common characteristic is their leaning to their own tradition or historic development. Various models of local self-government will be preserved also in the future as there is no and cannot be one single model, even within individual (federal) states. The diversity of models is respected also by ECLS and other documents of the CE and also the EU which refer to local and regional communities.

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