Functions of the President of the Russian Federation as a national leader

In general, the constitutional functions of the President of the Russian Federation are reduced to the fulfillment of the duties of the head of the Russian state by the latter. In fact, we are talking about the status of a national leader, which involves the implementation of three basic provisions: the preservation and strengthening of the constitutional system, the protection of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the state and the legal provision of the work of all political institutions.

Moreover, due to the fact that he is elected by popular vote by secret ballot, that is, he gets the right to legitimate power, the functions and powers of the President of the Russian Federation imply a strategic definition of trends in domestic and foreign policy, a qualitative definition of priorities for economic, social and humanitarian development. As a guarantor of the rights and freedoms of citizens, the head of state is thus the bearer of the basic principles of the rule of law and the provider of national and international constitutional norms.

The functions of the President of the Russian Federation are granted to the applicant, who won the national elections, for a period of six years. According to the current legislation, one person can not occupy the highest state post of the country more than twice in a row. Most political experts point out that Russia has a system of post-Soviet presidency that involves the transfer of the fullness of state power to one hand under the condition of a nominal existence of the cabinet of ministers, parliament and the judiciary.

Practical functions of the President of the Russian Federation:

• Appointment of the Prime Minister after preliminary consent of the deputy corps of the State Duma. De jure, the chairman of the government independently forms the personal composition of the Cabinet, but in fact the president takes an active part in its formation. Given the current constitutional model, it can also be confidently asserted that the head of state remains the most active player on the bureaucratic field, and the personal composition of the top leadership of the state depends on his position.
• The functions of the President of the Russian Federation allow him to conduct meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers, determine the priority of consideration of issues at such meetings. This circumstance allows some lawyers and political scientists to assume that the head of state is the head of the executive power.
• Appointment of the date of elections to the State Duma. Thus, the functions of the President of the Russian Federation allow the head of state to act as an active player on the party field, since the lower house of Parliament is elected on a pro-rata basis. The practice of elections in the last decade reduced the number of active political players to the required minimum, which allowed increasing the manageability of the political system as a whole.
• The national leader has the right to nominate a nationwide referendum on key problematic issues of state development. This means that the functions of the President of the Russian Federation are reduced to the mission of free maintenance of the legitimacy of the head of state. After all, if his hypothetical proposals are confirmed at a referendum, he can get additional informal powers to implement his own policy.