Practice question · Multiple choice
The 2013 reform tried to stop municipalities providing services outside their formal competences. Why did the underlying tension survive it?
Hints
- Ask why municipalities took on the services in the first place.
- The demand comes from residents and does not disappear when the competence is withdrawn.
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D. Residents bring needs to the level closest to them, and nobody else was providing those services
Why
Because the demand is unaffected by the legal position. If the competent body is not providing a service, the municipality either provides it without competence or leaves residents without it. The reform was contested and partly limited by the Constitutional Court rather than struck down.
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