"I started the survey out of boredom": A Yakut deputy is being demanded to publicly apologize for a video.
This weekend, a deputy of the state assembly of the republic Dmitry Pankov He decided to find out if the city's residents knew their elected representatives. To do this, he went to Yakutsk's central square and showed the residents photographs of 11 elected representatives (including his own). Most of those interviewed said they were seeing these people for the first time.
«My colleagues and I need to communicate with our constituents more often.and”, to this conclusion has come Dmitry Pankov based on the survey results.
However, not all deputies took this calmly. For example, Gavril Parakhin accused his colleague of "parasitism."
If Dmitry really worked, he wouldn't have time for all this nonsense, сказал Parakhin to journalists. — He started the survey out of boredom. Let him spend more time with the public and help with the SVO, then he'll be the most recognizable.
Editor of the pro-government portal Elena Tikhonova She suggested that Pankov publicly apologize for violating parliamentary ethics (she also reminded him that the people's representative is, incidentally, a member of United Russia).
«United Russia member Pankov, as we see, doesn't understand the very essence of a deputy's job. According to his logic, the most important thing is recognition and popularity."- считает Tikhonova.
At the same time, ordinary residents of Pankov support it.
«Pankov's survey clearly showed that the people are separate, and the deputies are separate. What does this indicate? The deputies are afraid of recognition. They're afraid of the people.», - write There are people in the comments.
Pankov himself does not see "There's nothing wrong with spending a couple of hours trying to understand and find out what people want."