Legal issue: Constitutionality of the regulation which precludes the reinstatement of a dismissed head of municipality in his office on the ground that prior to the end of judicial proceedings a new head of municipality has been elected.

Ratio decidendi: pre-term elections should not create obstacles to the implementation of the respective judicial remedies. The court proceedings should, in their turn, be carried out as quickly as possible in order to exclude the procrastination of uncertainty. Therefore, the federal legislator must adjust the conflicting rules to each other, having thus ensured the maximum reduction of the terms for consideration of court appeals against a decision to dismiss the official and immediate judicial review of its legality. As for the rules of the Labour Code, the Court ceased proceedings with regard to them, finding them inapplicable to elected officials of local self-government.