Day of Local Communities of Kyrgyzstan
Description:
local government of Bishkek
It is celebrated on the last Sunday of October.
Established by the Decree of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic of March 6, 2003 No. 107, in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic "On the provision of state support to primary level local self-government bodies" of January 15, 2003.
Officially, the reform of local self-government began with the adoption on April 19, 1991 by the Supreme Council of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan of the Law "On Local Self-Government in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan", which established fundamentally different norms and rules for the organization of local authorities from the practice of centralized management.
The first steps towards decentralization of power were taken with the adoption of the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic on May 5, 1993, in which self-government was constitutionally enshrined. As a result, in the basic law, local self-government was assigned a separate chapter - Chapter VII "Local self-government". Kyrgyzstan follows the recommendations of the European Charter on Local Self-Government adopted by the Council of Europe in 1985. According to Article 2 of the Charter, “The principle of local self-government shall be recognized in the legislation of the country and, if possible, in the constitution of the country.”
In October 1996, at the second meeting of the heads of local self-government of the republic, the first Association of Local Self-Government Bodies of the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia was formed.
The history of the development of local self-government in Kyrgyzstan speaks of the difficult path the country has traveled in a short period of time towards the implementation of the principles of local democracy, the introduction of openness and transparency of the actions of local authorities, and ultimately, improving the effectiveness of territorial administration. Despite a number of objective difficulties, it was possible to form a bright and distinctive national model of local self-government, organically fitting into the socio-political landscape of Kyrgyzstan and based on the long-standing national self-governing traditions of the people.
