Methods of appointing and dismissing the heads of administrative units in Iraq after disrupting the

Abstract

The administrative organization in the state follows the political organization, as it takes two methods: administrative centralization and administrative decentralization, according to the philosophy of the state and the form of its system of government, as well as its different political, economic and social conditions. Chief executives of public policy in the state, as well as administrative heads within the scope of their administrative units, who follow up and supervise the work of local bodies and other departments in that unit within the limits of what the law allows them to do.They have a major and important role in managing the administrative activity and a direct contribution to achieving development and meeting the needs of the local community. The method of choosing them varies according to the different systems and laws. Some of the laws resort to the method of appointment, and another section is done by election, as is the case in Iraq, which took the method of appointing the heads of administrative units in the provincial law No. 159 of 1969 repealed by the central authority, and after the change of the political system in 2003 and the issuance of the effective Provincial Law No. 21 of 2008 became the choice of heads of state Units are elected by local councils only, and this law entrusted the councils with their dismissal and termination of services, but these councils were suspended in accordance with Law No. (27) of 2019, and the Prime Minister began exercising the competence of the councils’ work in appointment and dismissal after approaching the House of Representatives regarding for conservatives.