The prosecutor’s office is against the fact that the head of Vorkuta retains his position while serving in the NVO

The prosecutor’s office of Vorkuta filed a protest against the city parliament’s decision that persons holding municipal positions should retain their positions while serving in the special military operation zone (SVO). Earlier, the council of deputies of the municipality made such a decision after the mayor of the city, Yaroslav Shaposhnikov, announced his desire to go to the war zone as a volunteer.

At the end of March, the mayor of Vorkuta, Yaroslav Shaposhnikov, announced his intention to go to the North Military District as a contract soldier. Together with him, several other employees of the city administration decided to go to the war zone. The council of deputies of the municipality supported its mayor and on April 28 considered a draft resolution on guarantees for municipal employees to retain their positions for the period of service.

However, already then the prosecutor’s office of the city district notified them in writing of the inadmissibility of adopting such an act due to its contradiction with federal law, according to which persons holding state or municipal positions cannot work part-time and they are not subject to the same rights as those working under the Labor Code . The prosecutor’s office believes that guarantees for the head of administration to retain this post can be provided for in the charter of the municipality, but not be accepted by the decision of the council.

However, these arguments did not stop the deputies from making a decision. It applies to all persons employed or elected to local self-government bodies. In the administration of the Arctic, “Kommersant” explained: the preservation of the place for the mobilized does not mean that the administration will not be able to conclude a fixed-term employment contract with another person for the temporary performance of the duties of the departed to the NWO. “The draft decision separately spoke about the leaders of the municipality. During the period of suspension of the powers of the chairman of the council, his duties will be performed by the deputy chairman of the council, the authorities of Vorkuta explain. The powers of the head of the administration during his absence will be transferred to the first deputy (or deputy). During the military service of the chairman, an employee selected from the commission will lead the control and accounts commission.

However, the prosecutor Alexander Bagrov, who was present at the meeting, still offered to send the draft document for revision. Now the submitted protest of the supervisory agency must be considered by the council at the next meeting, the date of which has not yet been determined. If the parliamentarians reject it, the prosecutor’s office has the right to appeal to the Komi Supreme Court.

The deputies have not yet publicly commented on how they will vote on the consideration of the prosecutor’s protest.

“We considered it necessary not to take into account the opinion of the prosecutor’s office (at the time of the adoption of the decision.— “b”), since its leadership, as was said on the sidelines of the session, does not prevent anything from making a protest following its results, ”one of the parliamentarians told Kommersant on condition of anonymity.

Mr. Shaposhnikov himself has not yet gone to the NVO zone. He argues that this has nothing to do with the uncertainty about the possibility of retaining his position. “In April, I resolved all personal and legal issues – I planned to travel to the NWO in May. However, from the head of Komi, Vladimir Viktorovich Uyba, who, in fact, is my commander, I received a command to postpone my departure and go to serve as part of a larger team of colleagues from our Republic. It is being formed now. The dispatch will take place when the team is fully staffed – I am waiting for a specific date, ”the mayor wrote on his social networks.

He added that his special rank was major, and his general army rank was private. “I will serve in the position assigned by the command. I will answer the provocateurs: my decision was made out of ideological convictions, upbringing and the desire to help the Motherland. Until I leave, there is a lot of work for the benefit of Vorkuta in the coming days. I hope for your support,” summed up the head of the administration of the Arctic.

However, Vorkuta political scientist Sergei Ivanov believes that if the deputies “do not fight back” from the prosecutor’s office, the mayor will find other reasons not to go to the front. “The situation that is currently developing in Komi will become a precedent across the country. All regions are now closely watching our republic. If the supervisory authority achieves the abolition of guarantees that officials of the regional and municipal authorities will retain their posts, this will be a signal for all municipal and civil servants in Russia to first think carefully before throwing promises to help the Fatherland in the line of fire within the framework of the SVO, ”explained the Kommersant expert. . He also recalls that at the end of last year in Vorkuta there was an accident at the treatment plant. “It is possible that the mayor himself could become a defendant in the near future as an official responsible for all the shortcomings of the mayor’s office that led to such environmental problems,” Mr. Ivanov believes.

Andrey Ivanov, Syktyvkar