Socio-economic guarantees of deputy activity in Ukraine

Abstract

The article is devoted to the disclosure of issues of legal regulation and the prospects for improving the system of socio-economic guarantees of deputy activity in Ukraine. As a result of the study, it has been substantiated that economic and social guarantees for ensuring the activities of the people's representatives are closely related to each other and act as a certain integrity. Economic guarantees, among which labor and material and financial guarantees stand out, are to ensure proper economic conditions for the activity of the deputy corps. The content of social guarantees is to meet the material and everyday needs of the deputy associated with the implementation of the representative man-date. Social guarantees are aimed at creating living conditions, recreation, medical care, social security for the deputy. It has been proved that domestic legislation is gradually getting rid of the Soviet political and legal tradition of broad regulation of socio-economic measures to ensure the people's representatives, since in recent years they have been optimized and rationalized, the elimination of those that contradicted the principle of equality and were a burden for the respective budgets. Today, domestic legislation provides virtually all known to foreign political science social and economic conditions for the work of MPs. In recent years, the system of social, household and financial guarantees of deputies 'activities has been optimized and rationalized, and those that contradict the principle of equality have not been eliminated, did not increase the efficiency of deputies' powers, and were an unnecessary burden on the respective budgets. Today the problem of ensuring openness and proper control over the issues of material and financial support of the deputy corps remains relevant.