ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL IMPROVEMENT OF LOCAL COUNCILS UNDER THE NEW CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

Abstract

This paper analyses the organizational and legal nature of the relationship between the Council of People's Deputies and the local executive administration (khokimiyat) under Uzbekistan's new constitutional framework. Its central argument is that democratic balance within the system of local state authority cannot be secured through declarations of competence alone. It requires clearly delimited institutional boundaries between the representative-oversight function and the executive function, guaranteed access to information, effective accountability procedures, committee opinions with defined procedural weight, and digital transparency. Drawing on constitutional-legal, formal-legal, institutional and comparative-legal analysis, the study identifies three conditions of institutional balance: the organizational autonomy of the Council and its secretariat; the transformation of oversight from isolated hearings into an interconnected cycle of examination, monitoring and evaluation; and the development of the Council as a territorial public-law control filter exercising preventive, corrective and evaluative oversight. The paper concludes that the purpose of the Council is not to obstruct the executive administration but to subject its activity to representative oversight measured against legality, public interest, economic soundness and transparency.