The principle of proportionality as an effective tool for the protection of electoral rights

The purpose of the work is to analyze the practice of implementing the principle of proportionality in the field of electoral legal relations. The authors set the task to show the features of the practical significance of the principle of proportionality. As a result of the study, the authors emphasize that there is a normative, interpretive and procedural relationship between the constitutional principles of electoral law and the principle of proportionality, which ensures effective protection of electoral rights. Through the principles, as regulators of public relations, it is possible to effectively implement the concept of the rule of law. In the modern period, it is the principles, as universal regulators of social relations that have an integrative nature, that can allow maintaining the parity of interests in the chain of man-society-public power, where man is the highest value and create a model of sustainable development of legal regulation. The authors emphasize that the importance of the principle of proportionality as an effective tool for protecting electoral rights is constantly growing.

principles of constitutional law, principles of electoral law and process, the principle of proportionality, electoral legal relations, election commissions, elections