Poklonskaya couldn’t and leaves
State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya announced her resignation from the post of deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee on security and anti-corruption. She hopes to continue working in the lower house of parliament committee on international affairs
Poklonskaya herself stated this during a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I turned to the leadership of the Duma, the leadership of the United Russia faction and asked, I myself initiated my long-standing desire to work in a slightly different, but not entirely different direction - this is the Committee on International Affairs. Therefore, in the autumn session, I hope, I will already be working on this committee.
In addition, Crimea, recognition of Crimea, I am in some part somewhere the personification of Russian Crimea, because everyone remembers 2014, our referendum, which we are proud of, and my presence on international platforms, I hope, will contribute to a speedy resolution this issue regarding the international recognition of our peninsula,” Poklonskaya said.
Let us note that in March 2019, Poklonskaya claimed that she had materials about flagrant cases of corruption in the State Duma. She stated that a number of current parliamentarians were found to have real estate and bank accounts abroad, namely in Finland and France. Poklonskaya clarified that we are talking about deputies from United Russia and A Just Russia.
However, this information was not considered at the committee meeting, since committee members from United Russia did not attend. This happened after the vote on pension reform, in which Poklonskaya was the only one from United Russia to vote against.
After a complaint to the leadership of the faction and the leadership of the State Duma, at the next meeting of the committee, all deputies appeared as expected. However, this turned out to be the last meeting of the committee, and it was not possible to consider all the available materials. Shortly after this meeting, the committee was disbanded as part of the “optimization of the work of committees” of the State Duma. The committee was merged with the Ethics Committee, but Poklonskaya was not invited even as an ordinary member to the new committee. Thus, she was actually isolated and deprived of access to all information, noted the Tsargrad TV channel.
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