Why do people's deputies get out of hand?

Baku/03.08.21/Turan: How could it happen that the deputy of the Milli Majlis Eldaniz Salimov "dared" to manhandle a police officer? How could it happen that some deputies imagined themselves "hegemons"? Political expert Azer Gasymly answered these and other questions in the program "Difficult question".

According to him, the heads of the executive power, deputies of Milli Majlis, heads of police department, etc. believe themselves to be above the law. The point is that they are not elected by the people, they are completely independent of them, and therefore they consider it possible to act as they please in relation to any citizen.

The politician believes that facts of this sort are not, as a rule, reflected in mass media and social networks. Suppression of these wrongdoings gives rise to the fact such a behavior becomes a norm for a certain category of people in power.

On the other hand, - according to Gasymly, - the incident that occurred is a question of relations within the government proper.

"If a deputy of Milli Majlis beats an ordinary citizen, commits an act of violence against him, the case comes to no disciplinary commission. And even if it does, no decision on the deprivation of the immunity of the deputy is accepted. Even worse, the issue would not even be brought up for discussion in Milli Majlis. Even worse, the issue would not be a subject of debates in mass media and social networks. The fact is that there was a conflict between a deputy and a police officer. This means that we are talking about a dispute between the branches of government, between the parliament and the Ministry of Internal Affairs," he said.

The politician believes that this event has become a topic of the media and social networks not at all because it was witnessed by journalists or bloggers but just because it caused concern in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Gasymly is sure that the authorities could not but show an attitude to this, since it follows out of its very essence. If someone beats up a policeman, especially if it is a representative of another branch of government, then this is a direct path to anarchy. It is obvious that no government, and especially the authoritarian one, can tolerate such a thing. Therefore, there is no doubt that the authority will punish the deputy and deprive him of his mandate.

According to Gasymly, this is not an isolated case of such an ugly behavior of deputies and it is explained, as already mentioned, by the fact that they are not elected by the people but appointed from above.

"It is significant that Eldaniz Salimov was the first to ask for forgiveness from President and then from the ruling party, colleagues in the parliament (deputies) and, in the end, from the people.

However, President is the head of the executive branch, and the deputy is a member of the parliament – the legislative body, so it'd be inappropriate to apologize to President from a formal point of view. In a democratic country, this would be impossible. But the thing is that It was President who gave him mandate. That is why Salimov asks for his forgiveness, " Gasimli concluded.—0—