The leader of the Fair Russia party Sergey Mironov called on working retirees not to wait for the indexation of pensions over the next three years. On his Facebook page, he wrote that such a conclusion follows from the chapter report Pension Fund of Russia Andrei Kigima.
Politician reminded that since the cancellation of indexation five years ago, the state owes people almost 1.5 trillion rubles. He pointed out that he raised the question at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin back in October last year, but the government did not fulfill the instruction of the head of state.
According to Mironov, the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov refers to the shortage of money in the budget, and also indicates that the pension is compensation for lost earnings, that is, working retirees could not receive anything.
In Meanwhile, the head of Wed stressed, the money will be found if the retirement fund is eliminated, where “bribery and waste”, and pay money directly from the budget. The site of the press center Mironov also provides a quotation of the policy that it is possible to return the indexation only in the case of the formation of a “powerful fraction of socialists who will take folk, and not anti-people laws.”
According to the surveys of the WTCIOM, conducted on July 5-6 and July 8-11, among a total of 3200 respondents and published on July 16, the ranking of the Party Party “Fair Russia – Patriots – for the truth” is six percent (apartment survey) or seven percent ( Telephone survey), that is, it overcomes a five percent barrier with a minimum reserve. Guaranteed to be held in a new composition of the State Duma “United Russia”, Communist Party and LDPR.
Against the background of such ratings of Mironov in recent months, it has repeatedly expressed the pensions, minimum wages and the introduction of basic income. As a recipe for improving the welfare of citizens, he called an increase in fees from the sale of hydrocarbons, a state monopoly on alcohol, the return of loans issued to other countries.