Re-Create the Municipal Councils: Mukhtar Councils

Abstract

Local governments and municipalities, which are the most important institutions of local government, stand out compared to central government in terms of democracy and political participation. In this sense, the fact that local administrations are close to the people and can easily contact them and the diversity of channels of political participation have led them to be accepted as a school of democracy. Mukhtars are an important institution because it acts as an agent that ensures the connection of the neighborhood with the central and local administrations, listening to the demands of the neighborhood and transferring them to the relevant institutions and providing the contact between the citizens and the state in this context. This study deals with “municipal councils” and “Mukhtar”, both of which are the bodies of local government institutions that are elected to their positions, and suggests that the headmen who are one of these institutions should be municipal councilors at the same time in the context of their duties. The issue has also been discussed in the context of political participation and the spread of democracy to the base. What makes local governments important is the spread of democracy to the base. This will be achieved by carrying the will of the neighborhood to the Assembly through the mukhtar. Because the neighborhood is the smallest unit of the local community.