Functional Neutrality and its Impact on the Employee's Right to Establish Political Parties and their Membership: A Comparative Study

Abstract

According to the public service relationship, the public employee has some rights and benefits, and as a citizen he has many other rights, including the right of establish and join political parties, with the aim of confirming the duty of neutrality in this field and based on that relationship, some restrictions were imposed on this right, as an attempt to remove the influence of  Partisan and political affiliation in the public service, and spreading the principle of equality in the use of public facilities, as the legislator assumed the lack of this neutrality among some of partisan employees;  Therefore, he resorted to legislating legal texts that prevent the practice of partisan and political activity in the public service, or the use of its capabilities to support a specific political party or its members or promote its philosophy in the public service, as well as trying to limit the harm to the employees based on their different partisan tendencies and affiliations and against them bias.