The commissioner of the head of the region in the regional parliament: the place, role and importance in public authority
The article is devoted to the study of the legal status of the commissioner of the head of the region in the regional parliament, the analysis of their place, role and importance in the mechanism of exercising state power. The modernization of the legal regulation of the functioning of the commissioner of the highest official of the subject of Russia in the legislative (representative) state authority of the subject of the Russian Federation is capable to significantly improve the effectiveness of interaction between the executive and legislative authorities at the regional level. The aim of the study is to formulate general thematic theoretical provisions, to formulate recommendations aimed at optimizing the organizational and legal framework for the activity of the commissioner of the head of the region in the regional parliament, and, ultimately, in the scientific justification and suggestion of tools for improving state administration at the regional level. The study analyzed federal legislation regulating the organization of the system of public authorities in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the basic regional legal documents, including the constitutions and statutes of the subjects of Russia, acts of the heads of regions, as well as the legislation of foreign federal states (the USA, India, Australia and others). The research was carried out on the basis of proven and positively proven methods of scientific knowledge. The general scientific methods (logical, dialectical, structural-functional, systemic) and special-legal (formal legal, interpretations of the norms of law, comparative law, legal forecasting) were used to study the subject of the study comprehensively. The work consistently examines the issues of institutionalization of the commissioner of the head of the region in the regional parliament, its legal basis for functioning; the target and competence component of the activity of the commissioner of the head of the subject of Russia in the parliament of the region; peculiarities of the status of the commissioner of the head of the region in the regional parliament as a state civil servant of the subject of the Russian Federation; ensuring the activity of the commissioner of the head of the region in the regional parliament; the functioning of a similar institution in foreign federal states. During the research, in particular, it was established that the right of the highest official of the subject of Russia to have a commissioner in the regional parliament refers to the discretionary powers of the head of the region. S/he has the right to independently determine the mechanism of their interaction with regional state bodies, fixing the organizational and legal bases and limits of their representative. It is proved that the institution of the commissioner of the head of the region in regional (local) state bodies is a feature, and in a certain sense also an innovation, of the Russian mechanism of public administration (public administration) at the regional level. Concrete proposals and recommendations aimed at improving the efficiency of the institute under study are presented. Thus, legal norms are formulated with the aim of detailing the status of the commissioner of the head of the region in the regional parliament as a state civil servant of the subject of Russia, as well as fixing their special confidential relationship with the highest official of the subject of Russia; the expediency of developing a Model Normative Act in which it is possible to reflect the basis of the legal status of the commissioner of the highest official in the region's parliament was argued.