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- Title
POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION BODIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA.
- Authors
MAKSUTI, Mersim
- Abstract
Initially, I would like to give a general explanation on the notion of responsibility, then about the political responsibility in particular and in the end I will focus mainly in the political responsibility of the senior officials in various high positions within the state public administration in Macedonia. Political responsibility, within the political relationship between the political mandate and the mandatory, primarily refers to officials, bodies, forums and institutions in general which are elected, appointed or constituted for the exercise of political functions, as debtors, facing voter denominators and constituents as their creditors. Political responsibility in this country includes the highest officials of the state administration bodies politically designated and they are all a subject to it. Political responsibility is characterized by the relationship built through trust, hence this responsibility indicates responsibility for the work they do, and cannot be seen as an opportunity for illegal work. Legal regulation of political responsibility in the Republic of Macedonia is regulated by specific laws of this country where political responsibility of ministers may be threefold - for their work, the work of the institution in charge of which they are and for the work of the Government. Ministers in the Republic of Macedonia are primarily responsible to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia and then to the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia for their personal decisions and policies, as well for the efficient management of their departments within the Ministry. Regarding the political responsibility of the state administration in the Republic of Macedonia, provided under the laws in force, resignation as an act by which public official express their decision to leave the position from whom such an act is required. The public official decides to resign, as a means of resolving a current internal conflict. The resignation represents a different situation compared to the institution of revocation or dismissal of a public official. The resignation therefore represents an act through which a bearer of a public position expresses his/her decision to break the relationship with the forum or institution in which he/she operated due to non-exercise of duty, as requested from him/her by the forum or institution managed by him/her. The President of the Republic of Macedonia can be dismissed for serious violations of the Constitution and for committing a serious crime, according to the procedure provided in Article 87. 310 The procedure for verification of the responsibility of the President of the Republic can be initiated by the Assembly through a majority of two thirds of the votes of the total number of MP's. The responsibility of the President of the Republic of Macedonia is decided by the Constitutional Court of the country with a majority of two thirds of the total number of judges. If the Constitutional Court verifies the responsibility of the President of the Republic, his function ceases to exist by the power of the Constitution. In the Republic of Macedonia it is not easy to raise the question of political responsibility, while it is previously not fully regulated in the legal acts of political parties, and as such, sanctioned correspondingly. Consequently, there should have been better and clearer norms for the procedure of implementing the political accountability at all levels. Because of this, through the Law on Political Responsibility (which we don't have yet) we should have tasked the highest authorities of the state administration to regulate this issue better. Then, in terms of good and sufficient political will, we could rely in ensuring the concrete application of political responsibility, depending on the concrete circumstances, starting from a reprimand, public reprimand, revocation and dismissal from the position of political and public office.
- Subjects
PUBLIC administration; PUBLIC officers; RESIGNATION from public office
- Publication
Vizione, 2016, Vol 26, p255
- ISSN
1409-8962
- Publication type
Article