TFL Vsebine / Revija Revus

Nezdružljivost funkcije na državni in lokalni ravni je določena, da se prepreči opravljanje dvojnega mandata in druge oblike konflikta interesov ter zavaruje samouprava lokalne skupnosti. Obravnavano dvojno oziroma celo trojno funkcionarstvo poslancev samo po sebi ni neustavno in nezakonito, vendar gre pri tem za interesno nezdružljivost vlog, v katerih ti dvojni ali trojni funkcionarji sočasno nastopajo. Nezmožnost državnega zbora, da vprašanje nezdružljivosti funkcije uredi v skladu s temeljnimi načeli v državi (ravnovesje oblasti, avtonomija lokalne samouprave, predstavniška demokracija), nas vodi k prepričanju, da je moč poslanskega lobija zaenkrat še prevelika, medtem ko je politična kultura javnosti prešibka, da bi preprečila še nadaljnje korake zakonodajalca. Pomemben vidik nezdružljivosti funkcije je v tem, da bi se posamezniki morali zavedati, da opravljanje več na volitvah pridobljenih funkcij ni privilegij, temveč zaveza in dolžnost, da jih opravljajo kvalitetno in predano. Paradoks se kaže v tem, da posameznik, ki se tega zaveda, pravil o nezdružljivosti funkcije sploh ne potrebuje. Pričujoči prispevek je prirejen del doktorske disertacije, ki sem jo avtor uspešno zagovarjal februarja 2008.

It has been long since acknowledged in the legal theory that the reasons for incompatibility of holding several offices on the state and local level do not give enough ground to fully prevent officials to perform them at the same time. At the local level, officials serve the locally defined interests with an accentuated practical value for a local community, while officials at the state level pursue the social and political demands of greater dimension in accordance with the will of the state electorate. As there are differently set goals on both levels of government one could easily come to the wrong conclusion that the conflict of interest may not occur at all. Such reasoning would be ingenuous as it would be unwise to automatically and a priori deny individuals the right to actively perform official duties at different territorial levels of government. The relationship between the state and local level rests on several basic constitutional principles, such as separation of powers, principle of decentralization which is closely connected to the principle of self-government, and last but not least the principle of representative democracy which emphasizes that representatives are bound to the will of the people.