Zhirinovsky complained about blackmail of voters
LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky claims that he heard death threats coming from one State Duma deputy to another.
“I heard death threats several times in this room. He does not speak at the microphone, he speaks there and threatens a specific deputy: We will leave you. What we say from the podium is political language,” Zhirinovsky said, apparently referring to his recent promise to “hang and shoot United Russia deputies.”
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He also told how voters blackmail their deputies, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“They demand money, and if they don’t give it to him, he goes on a one-man picket outside the State Duma: deputy so-and-so doesn’t pay me back,” Zhirinovsky said.
According to the chairman of the commission on parliamentary ethics, Otari Arshba, the situation with voters looks somewhat different.
“We have more than a dozen complaints from citizens regarding our colleagues. One of our colleagues did not like the citizen’s statement, and he stopped communicating with the applicant in the epistolary and conversational genre. What can we say about this? Nothing. But we can recommend to our colleague that he treat the applicant more carefully,” Arshba said.
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