Poklonskaya refused to fine pensioners for criticizing the authorities
State Duma deputy and former prosecutor of Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya criticized the recently adopted law on disrespect for power, which provides for administrative liability for statements that may be regarded as indecent.
At the presentation of her book in Moscow, she said that this law is unfinished and duplicates already existing regulations, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the deputy, the bill was pushed through thanks to the consolidated position of the United Russia party.
“I voted against this law because I didn’t agree with it. First, this is an interpretation of what is “disrespectful speech” and where are these boundaries? If, for example, a grandmother goes for four weeks to get some kind of certificate, but they harass her and don’t give her anything, then she turns around and says some word, will that be an insult? Should she be held administratively liable and fined? It turns out that yes,” said the politician.
She said that it is unfair when government officials who allow themselves to call pensioners who receive a meager pension of eight thousand rubles, alcoholics and parasites, are not fined.
“My mother also receives a pension of 8, like all other Crimeans. And he is by no means an alcoholic or a parasite. I believe that in this case, if there is any disrespectful statement towards government officials, then today there is a criminal article and an administrative article for intentional insult. They work, so why introduce this additionally? This is also unclear to me, so I voted against it. And she spoke out at the committee, but, unfortunately, the party also gets a consolidated decision,” Poklonskaya said.
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