Vice-Speaker of the State Duma of Russia instead of working in the regions rested in Miami

Son of LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, State Duma’s Deputy Speaker Igor Lebedev published on his page on the social network Facebook photos from rest in Miami (Florida), although at that time he, according to the schedule of the parliament, was supposed to work in the region that he represents.

Photo: Facebook / Igor Lebedev

To left in the comments to the publication question of the head of the faction "United Russia"Sergei Neverov about why he is in Miami during the regional week, the politician replied that the city was attached to one of the LDPR electoral districts, writes"Merchant".

Screenshot from Facebook / Igor Lebedev

Later, the recording with photos of Lebedev in Miami became unavailable for viewing, and he refused to answer journalists' questions about this.

“This is a private correspondence of two people, it has nothing to do with journalists, and I'm not going to comment on anything,” Lebedev said.

A regional week is now taking place in the State Duma of Russia, and all the deputies are engaged in “working with voters”. For meetings with voters, personal reception of citizens in the region, with whom the deputy maintains constant communication from the moment of his election, receiving written complaints, a special week is given to the parliamentarians every month, which they call “regional”. In the Duma regulations there are no hard disciplinary norms that the deputy is obliged to observe when working with voters in the field.

Hard discipline is established only to attend plenary sessions of the State Duma, for the omission of which, without a good reason, a deputy may lose his salary to 1 / 6. There are no plenary sessions in the regional week, and each deputy decides for himself how to hold it. At the same time, article 75 of the State Duma regulation prescribes that the deputy “considered appeals from voters, personally led them to receive at least once every two months,” and “held meetings with voters at least once every six months”. The regulation does not concern such cases when a deputy spends a “regional week”, for example, in Miami.

The deputy’s trips to the “regional week” are paid for by the State Duma. But only after the deputy has submitted travel documents and other travel documents to the State Duma’s office proving that he was in the region where he constantly “works with voters”. The Duma apparatus is not interested in trips to other regions, as well as countries, as the deputy goes there at his own expense.

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