DISCRETIONARY POWERS OF THE FEDERAL LEGISLATOR IN THE FIELD OF ELECTORAL RELATIONS: CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL ASPECT
Тhis article discusses the features of the implementation of the discretionary powers of the federal legislator in the field of normative regulation of electoral legal relations. A distinction is made between administrative discretion in the organization of public authorities (the activities of public officials) and the discretion inherent to the legislator. The constitutional and legal basis of discretion is revealed and three independent groups of constitutionally significant elements of discretion inherent in the federal legislator are identified, the basic basis of which is the balance of constitutionally protected values. It has been established that the constitutional and legal boundaries and at the same time the limits of the legislator’s discretion are the constitutional goal of legal regulation - to ensure the balance of constitutionally protected values, which allows the federal legislator to exercise discretionary powers belonging to him and arising from state sovereignty, without violating constitutional and legal conditions (grounds, boundaries and limits) of their implementation.