Revisions Needed, Not Recentralization

State decree 22/1999 on regional autonomy is to be completely revised. But recentralization is certainly not needed. Local elections could be one way out.

February 12, 2002

IT'S very difficult to deny that the current proposed revisions to the state decree on regional autonomy are part of central government's efforts to grab back some control of regional affairs. Several new regulations that tighten up this decree, which is only just over a year old, do in fact reduce regions' right to put their own houses in order. Just one example of this is that the president can, under certain conditions, dissolve regional hou

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