It’s a good thing that, for now, deputies are elected by people, not by decisions of the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office.
Residents of Izmailovo and Golyanovo watched our investigation into Metelsky, the head of United Russia in Moscow, and gave a clear answer to the question: “Can a lying hypocrite who has hidden billions’ worth of property abroad be your deputy?” An unequivocal “no, he cannot.”
And Metelsky is no longer a deputy.
The Moscow Prosecutor’s Office also watched it and also answered that question.
The only difference is that they disagreed with the people and said: everything is fine. We have no complaints about a deputy who somehow came up with billions and invested them in Tyrolean hotels and Viennese palaces, putting everything in his elderly mother’s name.
I’m not surprised in the slightest. This is basically what United Russia and the prosecutor’s office exist for. Some steal and register everything in the names of their mothers and mothers-in-law. The others stand beside them in gold-trimmed blue uniforms, loudly declaring that everything happening is completely legal, just, sacred, and in line with “traditional values” (a reference to official Russian conservative rhetoric).
Well then. Once again, I want to say a big thank-you to the voters in former deputy Metelsky’s district.
And I’ll thank the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office too: in the next State Duma elections, we’ll go after United Russia not only with the real estate holdings of its members, but also with the prosecutors’ decisions that see nothing wrong with those properties.
They think this is acceptable, and we’ll be gathering the votes of those who think it isn’t. We’ll see who gets more.