The Role of the Governor in Iraq in Fighting Corruption

Corruption is the most dangerous human phenomenon for societies and countries due to its negative effects in various fields and at various levels. Corruption affects the various systems in which it is rampant. The increasing demands of citizens and the expansion of the size of states led the political authorities to try to get closer to the citizen, by adopting local administration systems that seek to provide public services efficiently and effectively, and to devote participatory democracy by delegating part of their powers to local bodies and local councils elected by local citizens. And if Iraq has known a large spread of the phenomenon of corruption in various sectors, the governorates have known the involvement of many in the various manifestations of corruption and its forms, especially from local officials, which was evident in the judicial follow-up that affected them after their involvement in corruption cases. This research is in the process of searching for the perceived mechanisms of the governor’s role in fighting corruption, and the powers he possesses, which are conferred upon him by Iraqi law.The analytical descriptive approach was used, which is one of the closest approaches to legal studies and research.The study answered the problem posed and the subsidiary questions by identifying the reasons for the spread of corruption in the governorates in Iraq, which is represented in the slackness of the Iraqi local administration system and its failure to keep pace with developments at the political, economic, social and cultural levels, and its inability to activate the role of the governor, which represents a mechanism Before and after anti-corruption is based on prevention of the various causes that lead to its occurrence on the one hand, and represents a tool for monitoring and detecting corruption on the other hand, which makes the governor a double role: preventing and combating corruption.