Local Participative Democracy in Hungary
Local Participative Democracy in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: The institutions of the local participative democracy in Hungary have been relatively unified for years. This means that the constitutional process did not really deal with the direct local governance in the period of 2010-2011. The legislator seems to be indifferent to the local democracy, although the local institutions to be mentioned do not require basic modification. Most of them are regulated in detail by local law; accordingly there is no central notion to stipulate them uniformly. In my opinion, this is a correct reasoning. Nevertheless the central and the local regulations are always changing. In the future it is possible that the local and the territorial public power will be modified, but it should take place with the consequent dialogue between the central Government and the local governments. The study is mostly based on the Act on Local Government of 1990 which is already not in force. Nearly two years passed from the writing until the publication of the study, therefore the study has "only" legal historical relevance, except the sections concerning the Fundamental Law.

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