Descentralizarea administrativă în contextul reformării administrativ-teritoriale a Republicii Moldova

Abstract

In the last two decades, the issue of decentralization of public administration has been widely approached, due to the fact that 25 years ago the Republic of Moldova disintegrated from the USSR and there was a need to adapt the public administration to the new socio- economic conditions. From from the very beginning the issue of ensuring local autonomy, a process that proved to be inconvenient for Moldova went along with this problem. The impor- tance of decentralization and of ensuring the local autonomy of public administration is as current today as it was in the 1990s of the previous century, decentralization in the true sense as well as the assurance of local autonomy have not yet been fully realized. Keywords: administrative decentralization, administrative-territorial reform, local auto- nomy, central public administration, local public administration.