Annotation

The new «municipal» law, which entered into force in the summer of 2025, significantly transforms the organizational foundations of municipal public authority. Although the changes it envisages have a lesser impact on the organizational foundations of local self-government, the transition to a single-tier system of implementation will inevitably lead to a reformatting of the territorial principles of its organization and the need to form local bodies of new, consolidated municipal entities. Because of this factor, these changes will inevitably be followed by a transformation of the legal regulation of such a key institution as municipal elections. Municipal elections possess significant specific features, determined not only by the specific level at which they are conducted but also by the special status of the entities they are organized to form or empower. At the same time, there is a systemic inconsistency in the definition of this status, and the divergence of regulatory approaches manifests itself in the differentiation of conceptual frameworks. The article provides the author's view on potential legal conflicts in electoral and municipal legislation that require doctrinal understanding and resolution.