On the Question of Filling the Position of the Head of Municipality

• Main Author: Anastasia G. Bykova
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Omsk Law Academy 2016-06-01
• Series: Сибирское юридическое обозрение
• Subjects: глава муниципального образования; высшее должностное лицо местного самоуправления; способы замещения главы муниципального образования; прямые и косвенные выборы; конкурс по отбору кандидатур на должность главы муниципального образования; представительный орган муниципального образования; the head of the municipality; the higher official of the local self-government; methods of filling the position of the head of municipality; direct and indirect elections; the contest for the selection of candidates for the post of head of the municipality; representative body of the municipality
• Online Access: https://www.siberianlawreview.ru/jour/article/view/601

The article, based on the normative legal acts, analyses methods of filling the position of the head of municipality. The author criticizes the current legislation and the existing law enforcement practice in some regions of the Russian Federation, which do not provide the right of citizens of the Russian Federation to select method of filling the position of the head of municipality. Considering the Republic of Kalmykia, Primorsky Krai, Smolensk, Omsk, Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Pskov, Moscow region and others it is stated that the legislative (representative) bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation changed the regional legislation, and therefore the representative bodies of local self-government managed to change the statute of the municipality and deprive local people of their right to independently determine the method of filling the position of the head of municipality. According to the author, the unification of the method of filling the position of the head of municipality does not comply with the Constitution of the Russian Federation and should be prohibited by law.