Kakitelashvili M.M. The right of the prosecutor’s legislative initiative in legislative (representative) bodies of state authority of the constituents of the Russian Federation

Abstract: This article is dedicated to the examination of the legal ground and practice of prosecutor’s participation in the lawmaking process of legislative (representative) bodies of state authority of the constituents of the Russian Federation. The object and subject of this research became the social relations in the area of implementation of legislative initiative by the prosecutors of the constituents of the Russian Federation, as well as the established practice of interaction between the prosecution agencies and regional parliaments. The goal of this work consists in substantiation of the prosecutor’s special role in legislative process, which is aimed ensuring the unity of the legal space and legal order. Based on the dialectical materialism as the foundation of rational cognition, the author conducts an analysis of the modern practice of prosecutor’s participation in lawmaking activity in the legislative (representative) bodies of state authority of the constituents of the Russian Federation. The conclusion is made that participation of the prosecutor in lawmaking activity contributes into provision of the unity of the legal space in the Russian Federation. The author proposes an original explanation of the reasonableness of vesting the prosecutors of the constituents of the Russian Federation with the right of legislative initiative in the representative (legislative) bodies of state authority of the Russian Federation. The author highlights the main directions of the lawmaking activity of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation.

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