A number of changes made to Russian electoral legislation since 2020 have been studied, significantly changing the procedure for interaction of election commissions with other public authorities both during election campaigns and in the inter-election period. It has been established that the corresponding connections are of a complex nature and are manifested in various forms, the number of which increases as new electoral and legal reforms are implemented. It is noted that trends in the legal regulation of this area of relations are contradictory. Attention is focused on strengthening and complicating the connections of election commissions with executive bodies of state power while simultaneously removing local governments from participation in the electoral process as independent eligible subjects while maintaining their organizational and technical responsibilities. It has been established that the system of election commissions is becoming more isolated and increasingly acquiring the features of a hierarchical structure, in which the leading role belongs to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation. A significant increase in recent years has been revealed in the volume of rule-making powers of the Russian Central Election Commission in the field of by-law regulation of relations in the preparation and conduct of elections, as well as the expansion of atypical functions of election commissions, especially manifested in conditions of emergency legal regimes. It is concluded that in the considered legislative innovations there is a single purposeful logic of the federal legislator, the implementation of which will most likely continue in the coming years. It is recommended to ensure that a balance is maintained in the relations of public authorities when carrying out further reforms of the electoral legislation.

electoral legislation, election commissions, legislative reform

Kotelnikov Alexey Dmitrievich – Lecturer at the Department of Constitutional Law and Theory of Law, Law Institute, Irkutsk State University (1, Karl Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0009-0003-4152-4468, RSCI AuthorID: 1224551, e-mail: ADK8897@yandex.ru

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