Zyuganov threatened the government with political default if the pension reform is adopted
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov called the pension reform proposed by the government “a law on the backwardness of the country.” “This is the most cruel and cynical law that has been introduced into this Duma over the past 20 years,” Zyuganov said today at a hearing in the State Duma of the Russian Federation. He believes the government is lying when it says there is no money in the country.
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“Over five years, the number of pensioners increased by 3%, and insurance premiums increased by 31%. You are not in any default. You are simply lying in a shameless manner. They built themselves palaces. Over the course of his entire working life, a person contributes 103 salaries to the pension fund, and receives 47 back. Where are the 56 salaries? This is how the oligarchs get rich,” Zyuganov said.
In his opinion, the government chose the most unfortunate moment to carry out anti-people reform.
“I am sure that the economic default, when the country was lowered into the gutter, will be followed by a political default if problems are solved this way. But this cannot be allowed: new American sanctions will come into force tomorrow. Our ruble and economy will fall,” Zyuganov said.
The communist, as expected, proposed solving the country’s economic problems at the expense of the oligarchs.
“I believed that the president would gather millionaires, billionaires, oligarchs, who over the past year increased their wealth by $25 billion, and say: friends, we must share. This did not happen - they are afraid to touch this sacred cow. I was sure that Medvedev would gather the bankers and say: when the country shook in 2008, we gave you 200 billion dollars from the Reserve Fund, and then 4 trillion rubles. You promised then that you would invest, create jobs, and raise wages. But they invested less than 5% of the investments they received. The rest was stuffed into our pockets and moved offshore,” Zyuganov said.
Let us recall that in July the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted the draft pension reform in the first reading. Three opposition factions opposed it. Today the Communist Party of the Russian Federation organized a rally outside parliament. Consideration of the reform in the second reading is expected in September.
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