Control over local legislation in Iraq and the possibility usage of the powers granted

Abstract

The research aims to clarify control legislation issued by the provincial councils, and to detect overlapping powers, as the Provincial Law No. 21 of 2008 grants provincial councils authority to issue local legislation, with subject them political and judicial control, while the Iraqi Constitution of the year 2005 / Article (122) grants provincial councils a special status (does not put the provincial council for the control or supervision of any ministry or any entity that is not linked to the Ministry of private) and has financial, and this means that the Iraqi constitution has adopted absolute decentralization, while the aforementioned provincial law was restricting powers with subject them political and judicial control, not including administrative control to subject, that is mean moving away the political and judicial decentralization, without prejudice to the administrative decentralization, by making provincial councils isolated from the central authority in the doing of its business.