توسيع صلاحيات الوالي في مجال المحافظة على الصحة العامة في ظل تفشي فيروس كورونا (كوفيد 19)‎

Abstract EN

This study aims to highlight the role of the governor in preserving the public health from of the spread of Corona epidemic (Covid 19), that poses a serious threat to the public health, and as this epidemic is an exceptional and unexpected circumstance it obligates the administrative authorities to take exceptional preventive measures to protect public health from the risk of infection.

As the governor is the representative of the central administration, the legislator has granted him wide powers and discretionary authority to take any measures to limit the spread of the Corona-virus and preserve the public health which is one of the the purposes of administrative police.

In this study we adopted the descriptive approach in definition public health and determining the nature of the circumstance that the country knows and induction the legal text regulating governor's powers in preserving public health.

The most important results in this study is the objective of expanding the governor's powers in restricting individuals rights and freedoms is not depriving individuals of their rights and freedoms.

Rather, the main objective of it is to combat the epidemic and reduce its spread in order to protect public health.

However, the governor is obligated when practicing this Powers to respect the legal texts regulating his powers.