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Speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin considers it wrong to assess the performance of politicians by the number of likes, they are gaining in social networks. His words leads TASS.
The head of the Duma Committee on Federal structure and local self-government Alexei Didenko, speaking on Monday at an enlarged meeting of the Council for legislative support of the digital economy under the Chairman of the state Duma, appealed to the senior Vice-President, head of the “Risks” of Sberbank Alexander Vedyahin. “Can we not spend money on elections, but to form opinion of the head of municipal formation on the basis of likes on social media?” — asked the Deputy.
Vedyahin replied that these mathematical formulas exist, however, in this case is more a matter for legislative regulation.
In turn, Volodin has noticed that “at Laika we can judge about the attitude to man, but will he do something, is not a fact”. “Politics is actions and decisions, and whether he [the politician, the officer] to take such decisions, which makes social networks? To take and sort by likes, whether people enjoyed warm water in a small town — not a fact”, — said the speaker of the state Duma.
Social pages are a lot of Russian politicians. Popular accounts of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, in August, he once again became the most quoted in the Russian press blogger among heads of regions.