The membership in Federal Units in Union Council as representative results in achieving two important principles of Federal System Principles, the first one is the principle of participation of Federal Units in the central authorities, and the second one is the principle of self-independence of these Units, since the participation in this Council is considered the first supporter for its self-independence, both in terms of its impact on the legislations being issued by the Central Legislative Authority or in terms of its impact on the management of the Council or its impact on the supervisory jurisdiction of the council. Since the Federal State is built on the basis of the principle of Separation of Powers and each authority has an exclusive constitutional authority which is not being interfered in by other authorities, in which each authority is independent from the other authorities in exercising its constitutional authorities, this interfering is not allowed except within narrow constitutional limits for the purpose of running the state. Therefore, the functional independence of the Union Council in the Federal State is one of the important basis in which the good performance for the tasks being assigned to this council is relying on. Council independence appears in different aspects such as legislation, administration, financial, and monitoring aspects.
Avdal et al. (2024) studied this question.