Lev Schlosberg: "Void instead of Putin"

“Before Putin is the choice between the right and unacceptable, and he will look for the opportunity to present the unacceptable correct. The epidemic on the rise. The number of victims is growing. No two May weeks will be resolved. To crush the epidemic, you need to give people and business the opportunity to stop without panic. And the way to ensure this one: to take vital expenses for the federal budget - and the income of citizens, and compensation for simple enterprises,” The deputy of the Pskov Regional Duma Lev Schlosberg writes on Facebook .

“This is unacceptable for Putin, because, firstly, this means recognition of the right of citizens to the budget, that is, the fixation of taxpayers as full citizens, and, secondly, this involves the removal of large money from the federal wallet, which, according to Putin, have a fundamentally different purpose: this is not for everyone.

The response to the pressure of the company, including business, for canceling the insulation and quarantine regime, may be either mitigation of restrictions (and a proportional increase in deadly risks), or large -scale (several trillion rubles) payments from the federal budget in order to reassure the largest number of people and support customer demand.

Putin will not go to such payments. Judging by his previous actions, a regionalization of responsibility may occur, that is, the dominators transfer the right to independently make decisions on the exit from the regime of increased readiness and the removal of other restrictions.

The result of such a regionalization of political decisions will be the formation of a colossal vacuum of the federal government, figuratively speaking, a void instead of Putin. This will deprive Putin of legitimacy as a national leader even in the loyal circles of society and can lead to the transition of critical sentiments to nihilistic. "