The concept of the constitutional and legal mechanism of financial support for the preparation and holding of elections of people’s deputies of Ukraine

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the concept of the constitutional and legal mechanism of financial support for the preparation and holding of elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine. Attention is focused on the fact that the financing of elections should be an object of regulation in order to prevent and counteract such a phenomenon as corruption and such a phenomenon as the implementation of illegal extraterritorial behavior of one state against another through civilians – members of parliaments. Attention is focused on the fact that Russia, using financial resources, influenced the elections of people’s deputies of Ukraine, starting with the revival of Ukraine’s independence in 1991, and tried to endanger the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine and the development of Ukraine as a sovereign democratic independent state. It is emphasized that the attempt of the aggressor state - Russia - to exercise illegal but effective control through pro-Russian political forces in Ukraine was carried out with the use of various financial instruments of influence and manipulation in the elections of people’s deputies of Ukraine. The article analyzes international documents devoted to the issues of the constitutional and legal mechanism of financial support for the preparation and conduct of elections. Signs of such a mechanism were identified based on the analysis of the provisions of each of these documents. Also, from the definitions of the concepts of the constitutional and legal mechanism of security, which are contained in the doctrine of the constitutional law of Ukraine, signs of this mechanism were revealed. The following author’s definition of the concept of the constitutional-legal mechanism of financial support for the preparation and holding of elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine is a system of organizational-legal and legal means of influence, with the help of which financial opportunities are created for the realization of the right of a citizen of Ukraine to be elected to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and in the case violation or threat of violation of this right - its protection and protection is carried out.