The State Duma may send deputies who have not been vaccinated to work remotely. Chairman of the lower house of parliament Vyacheslav Volodin instructed to work out this issue, speaking at a plenary session on October 28. According to him, the Duma Commission on Regulations should submit specific proposals for the removal by November 8.
The lower house of parliament is able to provide deputies with a remote format, stressed the speaker Vyacheslav Volodin: “We will work out the possibility of identifying positions either through a faction or through a commission on regulations, where each deputy will need to speak.
You need to make this decision, and not close your eyes and think what will carry you through. Will not carry. Every day our fellow parliamentarians find themselves in a hospital bed. Now a lot depends on us. Let’s discuss and make this decision, we will have to do it. “
According to Vyacheslav Volodin, employees of the Duma apparatus, as well as assistants to the deputies, will be obliged to be vaccinated.
LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky supported the speaker’s initiatives and proposed introducing tougher anti-coronavirus measures in the lower house of parliament: “We have 37 people who have not been sick or vaccinated. They can follow what is happening in the hall with the help of the Internet.
People are now in a difficult situation, and we have 37 people walking around who did not take care of themselves or their colleagues. Therefore, I propose to take the toughest measures.
It is necessary to reduce the time spent in the hall, our hall is the red zone – 450 people. I assure you, at least 10 infected people can now be in it. Not only ourselves are under threat, but also our loved ones – wives and children. You need to feel sorry for both citizens and your families. “
The deputy from United Russia, the head of the Duma committee on budget and taxes Andrei Makarov, in turn, threatened to prevent unvaccinated parliamentarians from discussing the country’s main financial document for the coming years: “We must be vaccinated, because there is a terrible threat – to stop the work of parliament … The second reading of the budget will take place soon. And half of this audience will want to come personally to defend their amendments, but I will not let a single person in if he does not have vaccinations or is ill. I’m not prepared to jeopardize the members of the budget committee, who can get sick in the same way. And if you don’t give a damn about the health of your colleagues, then I don’t give a damn about the health of the members of the budget committee. “
Remote work for unvaccinated parliamentarians is an unnecessary measure that will prevent them from performing their duties normally. So says the deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Sergei Obukhov. He has not yet begun to vaccinate against COVID-19, citing a high titer of antibodies. According to Mr. Obukhov, most of his colleagues have either been vaccinated or transferred the coronavirus: “What kind of panic? 92% of the State Duma deputies have been ill or vaccinated.
It seems to me that no country in the world has reached such a high level of collective immunity as the hall of the lower house of parliament.
Depriving the Duma of a full-fledged discussion of laws and representation of voters’ interests is, in general, nonsense. I was ill very seriously. Why do I need to get vaccinated when my antibody levels are 16 times higher than normal. “
At the same time, in March 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic in Russia was just gaining momentum, State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said that the regulations of the lower house of parliament do not provide for the possibility for deputies to vote remotely. “It would be wrong to talk about remote work at such a time,” the speaker emphasized at the time.
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