Constitutional Law Responsibility of Candidates for Preliminary Election

The paper is devoted to the study of such a topical issue of modern political life in Russia as the procedure of preliminary election (primaries) by political parties. In particular, the author of the paper, using the example of intraparty regulation of the pre-election procedure by the All-Russian Political Party «Edinaya Rissia,» elucidates the issue of responsibility of the candidates at the primaries under constitutional law. The paper analyzes various grounds of responsibility of the candidates of the preliminary elections under constitutional law. The author proposes the classification of the grounds of liability into the grounds of a legal nature and the grounds of political nature. The paper examines such mechanisms of application of measures of constitutional law responsibility of candidates of preliminary elections as refusal to register candidates and exclusion from the list of candidates of primaries; their comparative legal analysis with similar institutions of electoral legislation is carried out. In addition, the paper explores specific features of the constitutional law responsibility of the candidates of the preliminary election and specifics of its application, including in comparison with the norms of election legislation.