Three City Duma Stavropols announced early re -election
Deputies of the City Duma of Nevinnomyssk (the third largest city in the Stavropol Territory) announced the early termination of their powers and the holding of elections in September 2025 – a year earlier than planned. According to the official version, they want to create conditions for the emergence of « new leaders who have already established themselves in public or volunteer activities. » This is the third in the week of the Self-School of City Parliaments of Stavropol, whose powers expired only in September 2026. The regional administration does not comment on the decisions of the deputies, and Kommersant sources explain them to the authorities with the desire to dilute municipal elections with the voting of the State Duma and the regional Duma of Stavropol, which were scheduled for autumn-2026.
The question of the early termination of powers of the Duma of Nevinnomyssk was submitted at its next meeting on April 18 and supported by the deputies unanimously. The press service of the Duma explained this decision that appeared as an opportunity to “hold the election of a new composition of the municipal representative body in 2025” instead of the planned 2026. Such a transfer, according to the official version, “will create conditions for the nomination of new leaders who have already established themselves in public or volunteer activities, war veterans, which will become an additional incentive for the development of the city.”
Meanwhile, the Nevinnomyssk Mountain Duma was already the third by the last week the municipal representative body of Stavropol, whose deputies prematurely resign. As previously reported by KommersantOn April 11, deputies of the Duma of the regional center announced the self -roster, and on April 15 the same decision Accepted their colleagues from Pyatigorsk. True, the motivation for three solutions turned out to be different.
Stavropol reported that early elections were required due to population growth.
According to Rosstat, 557 thousand people now live in the regional center, and with this number of citizens, according to the federal law on local self -government, deputies in the city parliament should be at least 35, while only 30 of them are convinced of them. Therefore, the early elections, in which 39 deputies will be elected, will, according to the leadership of the pride, “ensure legitimate interests,“ ensure legitimate interests, “ensure the legitimate interests. citizens « a year earlier than expected.
In Pyatigorsk, Self -Schooling was explained by the reluctance to hold additional elections in two vacant districts in September 2025. In the name of and. O. The Chairman of the City Duma Semyon Marshalkin received a collective letter from deputies who noted that the missions were threatened with excessive expenses from the budget, and recalled that the State Duma has already approved in the first reading of amendments, according to which “additional elections of deputies are not held in the year preceding the year of the main elections”. In the case of their adoption, the mandates will remain vacant until 2026, which will negatively affect the observance of voters’ rights “both in the relevant electoral districts and in the city as a whole,” deputies said.
In the administration of the region, the situation with self -growing thoughts of the three largest cities of Stavropol is not commented. There, “Kommersant” only explained that elections in municipalities are regulated by law, and the regional power has nothing to do with this. And in the regional election commission they added that in only 2025, municipal missions in 18 districts were planned.
Sources of Kommersant explain the sudden epidemic of self -levels with the desire of the regional authorities to “display local elections with elections to the State Duma and the regional Duma”, which are scheduled for September 2026.
“According to the experience of the 2021 elections, when people confused in long ballots with a bunch of surnames, maybe this is logic,” a source in the government of the region told Kommersant. It is possible that the Zheleznovodsk Miner, whose powers are also expired in September 2026, will soon be announced to early termination of powers.
