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The central government than the local government to be "large", so to be able to "control" the local government, if the word "possession" means local governments have stuck in front of the central government, and that in many places may not like, such as in Japan. Really from the law, the Japanese central government is able to bundle live in the place of the Chief Executive of the local government is really small, often "helpless". The reason is that the Chief Executive of the local government by democratically elected from, subject only to the constraints of the Public Offices Election Law, as long as it does not break the law, no one can remove him from office, so even if the central government and he did not rule from this sense really "The Prime Minister and the the village head side of the child."
Of course, in practice the central government influence local governments at lower levels of the local government or the local government at a higher level, or some, but also great, but this influence is not implemented by personnel authority. Japan's central government to local governments to "make trouble" only in financial problems, many local governments in Japan, the main sources of fiscal revenue and expenditure is a place also pay taxes "in the budget of the central government, which also pay the proportion the timing of delivery will be able to make local government distress when they need to look at the central or Eye of the higher levels of government, the Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto reforms advocated a content is variable consumption tax to local taxes "just want to get rid of" relying on Central to eat, "the status quo.
The hands of the central government becomes no money, the so-called "pay taxes" is just collecting taxes from all over the re-allocated once only, do not need to rely on the central to local financial already quite well-off, also pay taxes to dinner, or the Chief Executive of the local government bent on the fugitive rebellion, "make trouble" invalid. Thing a farce, became the center of attention of the community even more to rely on to solve the proceedings go, if the chance encounter on legal vulnerability, then it is even more troublesome.
Out in Japan last year, an example of such a dumbfounding Kagoshima Prefecture Akune City Mayor Takehara letter so numerous from central to local officials and legal experts as well as all commentators have petrochemical, because he's as unheard Jiansuoweijian.
Akune City is not a big city, the total population was only 23,000, called called "City" on China is a small town, so the mayor rebellions up from Taro Aso began to Hatoyama Yukio then later Naoto Kan, prime ministers, are just buried when the ostrich does not comment on, just as a thing did not happen.
First, a reformist, Takehara letter want to cut down the wages of the members of parliament and local civil servants who quit the Councilmember and local civil servants are of course, firmly opposed to such Takehara mayor and council became deadly rival, Mayor dissolution over impeachment Parliament, Mayor re-election, but in the end elected Members of the original and the original Mayor.
Later, the mayor of drill legal loopholes, he first participated in the council meeting. According to the Japanese Local Autonomy Law, governors attended the parliamentary session is invalid, this next Parliament passed no resolution, because they open the black will. Then later, the mayor simply not convene the City Council, and more than half a year did not convene Parliament will be opened, and all have the final say by the mayor.
This problem, how parliamentary democracy can not convene Parliament meeting? The law does have provisions to prevent the executive heads of the parliamentary session to interfere with Parliament, but never thought there could be a lawless local leaders to convene parliament meeting, so there is no relative terms, suddenly there would be no way to.
Kagoshima Prefecture "advised Mayor Takehara convene parliament meeting Takehara simply ignored him, the General Secretary of the Cabinet in charge of local self-government" advised "Takehara, Takehara or ignore him. Because the law provides for penalties up convene Parliament to be mayor, but did not say no to convene meetings of the legislature violated the law, not to dispose of such behavior, so central to the county.
That county central government can dismiss the hapless mayor? Can not, Prime Minister, and the village chief is elected, who who also withdrawal can not afford. The village chief would like doing, as long as the villagers did not have views on the line, and others, not to say this was a 23,000 Mayor.
That is not no other way? The mayor is elected by the voters, only voters to his election to go. Choose again, if we can elect down the line you? But it can not look at the mayor is not pleasing to the eye casually re-election as a not all day long just elected mayor of a? So the law is to have more than one-third of the voters agreed, before they can enter the mayor's recall procedures, re-elect Mayor.
So starting in 2010, there are some members of the public up an attempt to break the impasse, the so-called no other way to break the deadlock in addition to the recall of Mayor, has collected the signatures of more than one third of the voters in September to start the recall Mayor procedures. Recall election in January 2011, and the results initiate recall procedures of West Taira of votes 8509, and Takehara letter a 7645 votes, Akune City Council convened considered to solve the problem, it also gives the Japanese a lesson, and has entered the program to change the law to punish those who refused to convene that may arise in the future Chief Executive of the local council.
Mayor Takehara go too far in this case, in flagrant violation of the fundamental parliamentary democracy, caused public resentment this failure in the elections, if the local chief executive is able to get the full support of the voters, the higher levels of government is really on He had no way