The evolution of civil legislative initiative legal regulation and its practical purpose based on citizens of Łódź draft of resolution projects

Abstract

The article concerns on the citizens’ resolution initiative issue. The subject matter of the study is to undertake an analysis of the current legal regulations applicable to citizens’ resolution initiative in terms of the above mentioned initiative. The article discusses works on changes in the Polish legislation which will simplify the usage of this form of civil activity. Based on the example of the city of Łódź, the author has presented the citizens’ activity in the field of civil legislative initiative before and after changes in law. Thereby, the accuracy and absoluteness of these legislative solutions has been analysed practically.

The article also tries to answer the question, whether the settlement of civil legislative initiative in legal regulations solved the legitimate dilemma in this range. The settlement of the civil legislative initiative in self-governments’ statutory law is the first step to implement the initiative stage of locals creating the law, but not the only one which has to be taken, so the mentioned institution can come into existence in the residents’ awareness.