Disciplinary Responsibility of Members of Local Councils in Iraq

The study aims to examine the disciplinary responsibility of the members of the local council in Iraq. The disciplinary responsibility of members of local councils is one of the most challenging issues that has been and is the subject of widespread controversy and disagreement among jurists because there are different views on the importance and necessity of the local councils and their role in the system. Therefore, in this study, we determined the responsibility of the local council members and provided a legal study highlighting the importance of the work of the local councils, especially in Iraq. Then, considering ongoing fallout from the local councils, we consider the importance of the disciplinary responsibility of members of the local council as it is one of the means owned by the public administration for the purpose of evaluating the offending behavior and deterring those who beg themselves to take the same approach(violating the law). The importance of this issue is due to the importance of the elements of discipline within the framework of local councils, as disciplinary punishment in general is a means of management that includes an element of pain, and it is the council’s means to maintain order within it and adhere to the ethics of local work. The study focuses on everything related to those responsibilities through analysis the legal texts regulating the work of local councils, by relying on the critical and inductive analytical method, and studying them in order to shed light on the legislative void. The lack of legal texts that govern the disciplinary responsibility of members of local councils, in addition to the modernity of the Iraqi experience in adopting the system of those councils, and thus the confusions that plague the local councils, and the successive modifications of the texts represent the most important results from that study.