Competitive way to form a corps of local government officials
This article discusses the current institution of the head of the municipality. The purpose of this scientific work is to study the procedure for electing a corps of local government officials, highlighting the main features of a “competitive” way of electing officials, indicating its strengths and weaknesses, as well as analyzing the consequences of changing the method of electing officials that arise because the use of the “competitive method” can seriously contradict established local traditions in many municipalities and the democratic foundations of the legal state. The goals and objectives of this work are the analysis of legislation in the field of suffrage and the process, the positive and negative sides of the “competitive” election method, as well as the specifics of its implementation in practice.