The Irkutsk State Duma deputy answered the voters why he supported the pension reform: “You didn’t choose a fool”

Irkutsk State Duma deputy Andrei Chernyshev answered voters why he supported raising the retirement age. He admitted that he was dissatisfied with the bill, but could not resist the federal government.

Chernyshev went to the State Duma in the Bratsk District in the Irkutsk region. The recording of his meeting with voters was published by the local site "City" on July 30.

“You didn’t choose a fool,” Chernyshev believes. - You trusted me for 14 years, for 14 years I told you, you saw my affairs, you read about them, I reported to you. And suddenly you read the headlines and think: “He must have gone crazy, it's time to change him!” I am one of 450 deputies. Of the 450 people. Well, what's the point if I just slapped the doors and went out. Who would invite me tomorrow? So I would ask a question to the minister, I would write, but they would say: so, but you don’t support, that is, I want here, but I don’t want to. ”

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When asked, if 60% of the State Duma deputies did not support the bill “and slammed the door”, he said: “Well, I, I am alone.” However, he admitted that the reform is “painful” for residents of the Siberian Federal District.

“The first step was taken, because we all understood - it will not be possible to get rid of the government that this bill will be in one form or another, it is still adopted. Probably, you can not change anything for some time, and in principle I agree with this, because for us, Siberians, this is the most painful law. ”

Business Andrei Chernyshev was associated with alcohol trade. He left the founders of the Yurmiko Trading House LLC before the elections to the State Duma-2016.