The Rules Committee of the Samara Provincial Duma suggested that the local branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation consider the expulsion from the party of MP Mikhail Abdalkin, who listened to the message of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Federal Assembly with noodles on his ears. On this subject informed RIA News.
Abdalkin’s act was discussed at the plenary meeting of the Samara Provincial Duma on February 28. The Rules Committee recommended that the State Duma consider the deputy’s behavior unacceptable and publicly censure him, the agency reports.
The Rules Committee also recommended that documents in the Abdalkin case be sent to law enforcement and the prosecutor’s office for legal assessment.
The deputies unanimously supported the proposals of the commission of regulations, declared the chairman of the provincial Duma, Gennady Kotelnikov. Abdalkin himself was not at the discussion and the vote.
On February 21, Mikhail Abdalkin published in his telegram a photo and a video in which he watches the message of the President of Russia to the Federal Assembly with noodles on his ears. The deputy said that he listened to the speech at the request of the deputy speaker of the Samara Provincial Duma.
“Totally agree, totally agree, great performance. Haven’t heard anything like this in the past 23 years. Pleasantly surprised,” Abdalkin wrote.
Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Alexander Khinshtein called Abdalkin’s behavior a “strange thing, more appropriate for a Ukrainian MP, but not a Russian one”, and also called on the leadership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation to “retain” a party member.
The head of the press service of the Communist Party faction Alexander Yushchenko, commenting on Abdalkin’s message, declared that young people are “fascinated by imaginary popularity on the Internet, and a momentary desire to be popular, to get a dozen or a hundred likes often crosses the line of moral and ethical standards”.
February 27 Abdalkin informed on his page on VKontakte that he was called to the police on March 1 in connection with his position.
