Органы местного самоуправления как субъект муниципальной власти: актуальные проблемы функционирования в свете конституционных изменений

Abstract

The constitutional changes that have taken place in our country have not bypassed the level of power that is closest to the population - local self-government bodies. A new look at the legal status of municipalities requires a critical assessment of the current state of their functioning with the further formation of prospects for improving their activities. The methodological basis of the research is represented by a number of traditional, general scientific (analysis, synthesis, comparison, forecasting) and specific scientific methods of cognition. Among them, the most common were the statistical method, which made it possible to determine the difficulties of the legal regulation of the status of municipalities, and the comparative legal method, with the help of which it became possible to identify the problems of financial support of local budgets. As a result of the study, it has been proved that the constitutional renewal of the status of local selfgovernment bodies requires the consolidation of the formed system of relations between state and municipal authorities. The revealed contradictions in the regulation of the competence of municipalities can be eliminated only after an inventory and unification of the powers of local self-government bodies at the federal level. In order to ensure the financial independence of local budgets, it is necessary to reorient the formation of their revenues from their own resources.