On the question of filling the position of the head of municipality

The article, based on the normative legal acts, analyses methods of filling the position of the head of municipality. The author criticizes the current legislation and the existing law enforcement practice in some regions of the Russian Federation, which do not provide the right of citizens of the Russian Federation to select method of filling the position of the head of municipality. Considering the Republic of Kalmykia, Primorsky Krai, Smolensk, Omsk, Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Pskov, Moscow region and others it is stated that the legislative (representative) bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation changed the regional legislation, and therefore the representative bodies of local self-government managed to change the statute of the municipality and deprive local people of their right to independently determine the method of filling the position of the head of municipality. According to the author, the unification of the method of filling the position of the head of municipality does not comply with the Constitution of the Russian Federation and should be prohibited by law.