The Models of Mandates of the Parliamentarians in Belarus and in the EU: Comparative Legal Aspect

Abstract

Goal – to analyze and compare the key points of concepts of representative mandates in Belarus and in the EU. Research methodology – the basis of the work is the comparative­‑legal method of research, as well as other methods of scientific knowledge. Score/results – in European legal science, there is a traditional division of the parliamentarian’s representative mandate into two types that currently prevail: a free and imperative mandate. The type of a mandate determines the character of cooperation of an elected representative with his electorate A number of progressive characteristics of the mixed type of parliamentarian’s mandate are stated. Originality/value – it is concluded that the gradual transition to the normative regulation and promotion of the mixed (hybrid) type of parliamentarian’s mandate in Republic of Belarus is preferable.