| Post: | Head |
| Body: | the Republic of Crimea |
| Insignia: | Emblem of Crimea.svg |
| Insigniacaption: | Coat of arms of Crimea |
| Incumbent: | Sergey Aksyonov |
| Incumbentsince: | 9 October 2014 |
| Department: | Executive branch of the Republic of Crimea |
| Residence: | Simferopol |
| Nominator: | President of the Russian Federation |
| Appointer: | State Council |
| Termlength: | Five years, |
| Termlength Qualified: | no more than two consecutive terms |
| Precursor: | President of Crimea |
| Formation: | 9 October 2014 |
| First: | Sergey Aksyonov |
The Head of the Republic of Crimea is the highest official and the head of the executive power of the Republic of Crimea; an internationally disputed federal subject of the Russian Federation located on the Crimean Peninsula.[1]
Crimean Head's policy is to ensure compliance with the Constitution and federal laws and the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Crimea, as well as the equality of nations and the rights and freedoms of man and citizen, and the preservation of the coordinated functioning of state bodies of the Republic. Person under 30 cannot be a head of the Republic.
Term of office is five years. Appointed by the State Council of the Republic on nomination of President of the Russian Federation. Interim Head of the Republic is appointed directly by President.
The current Head of the Republic Sergey Aksyonov was elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2019.
See also: History of Crimea.
See also: New Russia, Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and 1954 transfer of Crimea. The Crimean Peninsula, historically part of Imperial Russia and later an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, was ceded in 1954 to Ukraine, which administered it until the its annexation by Russia in 2014.
See main article: President of Crimea.
See also: 1992 Crimean constitution and 1994 Crimean presidential election. Under Ukrainian rule, an equivalent post, named President of the Republic of Crimea (Russian: Президент Республики Крым|Prezident Respubliki Krym), was provided by the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Crimea (de facto a special statute), with jurisdiction over the autonomous city of Sevastopol too. The first presidential elections took place in 1994, won by the pro-Russian separatist Yuriy Meshkov (leader of a coalition named "Russia"), but on 17 March 1995 the Ukrainian parliament, as part of a wider process of reduction of the Crimean autonomy, abolished both the statute and the post of President of Crimea.
See also: Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and Constitution of the Republic of Crimea. In the immediate aftermath of the revolution of Dignity, on 27 February 2014, Russian special forces without insignia[2] stormed the Crimean parliament. A few hours later, pro-Russian deputy Sergey Aksyonov came into the parliament, and asked some of the other deputies to come as well. After the deputies summoned by Aksyonov were let in by the Russian soldiers guarding the parliament building, two votes were held. The first one appointed Aksyonov as the new Prime Minister of Crimea, and the second called for a referendum on Crimea's secession from Ukraine. The results for both of these votes were unanimous.[3] One week later, Aksyonov and other deputies held another vote, resulting in an appeal for Russia to annex Crimea.[4]
On March 16, a referendum on Crimea's status was held, with the results being overwhelmingly in favor of joining Russia. The next day, 17 March 2014, Crimea's newly installed authorities declared independence and requested to join Russia.[5] [6] On the same day, Russia recognized the Republic of Crimea as a sovereign state.[7] [8] [9] On March 18, the Crimean authorities signed the accession treaty to the Russian Federation, thus forming the Crimean Federal District, subsequently merged into the Southern Federal District.[10] [11]
On April 11, the State Council of the Republic of Crimea consequently ratified a new constitution, providing for the post of Head of the Republic of Crimea, effective from April 14 of the same year.
Under article 62 of the Constitution of the Republic of Crimea, approved by the State Council on 11 April 2014 and entered into force the following day, any Russian citizen who has reached the age of thirty can take up the post, provided that he has not been subjected to restrictions on civil and political rights.
Formally a head of state, the head of the republic is actually a governor, subordinate to the president of the Russian Federation; he oversees the executive, and has the right to legislative initiative in the State Council, which he can also convene exceptionally.
Furthermore, under articles 61–65 of the Constitution, he:
| Portrait | Name | Political party | Election | Term of office | Prime minister(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
| 1 | Sergey Aksyonov | United Russia | — | 14 April 2014 | 9 October 2014 | Himself | |||
| 2014 | 9 October 2014 | 19 September 2019 | |||||||
| 2019 | 20 September 2019 | Incumbent | Yury Gotsanyuk | ||||||
Three candidates were nominated for the election:[12]
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor= | Sergey Aksyonov | United Russia | 75 | 100 | |
| bgcolor= | Gennady Narayev | United Russia | 0 | 0 | |
| bgcolor= | Alexander Terentyev | A Just Russia | 0 | 0 | |
| align=left colspan=3 | Total | 75 | 100 | ||
| align=left colspan=5 | Source:ТАСС | ||||
Three candidates were nominated for the election:[13]
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor= | Sergey Aksyonov | United Russia | 74 | 98.7 | |
| bgcolor= | Pavel Shperov | Liberal Democratic Party | 0 | 0 | |
| bgcolor= | Sergey Bogatyrenko | Communist Party | 0 | 0 | |
| align=left colspan=3 | Total | 75 | 100 | ||
| align=left colspan=5 | Source:ТАСС | ||||