They are terribly far from the people

The St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly in the second and third reading was adopted by a law that equates the meetings of deputies with voters to rallies, according to Fontanka.ru. 38 deputies voted for the bill, 11 opposed.

The document will enter into force 10 days after its signing by the governor. This means that opposition deputies will have time to hold an action in the form of a meeting with voters with the Esaakievsky Cathedral on February 12. Deputies intend to surround him with a "living ring."

Deputy Oksana Dmitrieva said that the bill contradicts the constitution and infringes on the rights of citizens. "You have the word" Maidan "causes an uncontrolled hysteria, but think about which fire you are throwing firewood, forbidaring meetings with voters," said Boris Vishnevsky, a deputy from Yabloko, referring to the unicorns that initiated the bill.

On February 1, the document was approved in the first reading. The authors of the document from United Russia said that opposition deputies grossly violated the law, having arranged an inconsistent action against the transfer of Isaacia of the Russian Orthodox Church on the Marse Field on January 28. As the leader of the unicorn Alexander Teterdinko noted, this law must close the "loophole in the legislation."

On December 28, the Moscow City Duma adopted a similar bill . Only three deputies from the Communist Party faction voted against the Communist Party. Before the meeting, communist deputies Nikolai Zubrilin and Elena Shuvalova held a picket against the bill in front of the Moscow City Duma building. About 15 people participated in it. "The ban on meetings with deputies violates the constitutional foundations of representative power!" - It was written on posters.

“In Moscow, the situation is heated, residents are unhappy with what is happening,” said Shuvalova. “Plus, municipal elections on their nose. It is easier to manage a large number of people, you can deceive them, to show a good transfer on a candidate from the authorities, to falsify the elections. And when they elect a municipal deputy, representatives of several streets, it is more difficult to control.”

The Communists believe that in the "Unified Russian" they are afraid of protests in the capital. “Probably, they don’t want to see anyone in parliament. Unicorns are comfortable sitting in deputy chairs, they themselves do not want to work and interfere with us,” said Zubrilin. “This is a holy duty - to meet with residents and tell what is happening in the Moscow City Duma,” Zubrilin emphasized.

Zubrilin said that the deputies will find ways to continue to meet with voters, Zubrilin said. According to him, the provisions of the law allow this. What kind of articles will be based on the deputies, the Communist did not tell, so as not to give unicorns the opportunity to make new amendments.

On Tuesday, the bill equating throughout Russia a meeting of deputies with voters to rallies was submitted to the State Duma.