Public Execution

"What do you mean? What right does the Duma have to bypass the Ministry of Internal Affairs and summon our city bureau directly for some consultation meeting?"

After receiving the Duma's notice, Gudlav was utterly baffled.

He had never encountered anything like this before and had no idea whether such a consultation meeting even followed proper procedure.

The other deputy chiefs did not know either and could offer no useful advice at all.

Only Vladimir understood perfectly well that Wang Ye had already begun making his move!

When Gudlav called the Ministry of Internal Affairs to ask his superiors, they told him directly that the Duma did indeed have that authority.

The Constitution explicitly stated that the Duma had the right to oversee all government agencies!

Such consultation meetings had indeed been rare in the past, but that did not mean the Duma lacked the authority to hold them.

Didn't America's Congress constantly summon this department or that major corporation for questioning? It was essentially the same thing!

Once the Duma exercised this power, never mind a mere Moscow City Police Bureau—even the Ministry of Internal Affairs had to obediently submit to "interrogation"!

Of course, a meeting was a meeting. The Duma probably had no authority to directly remove city bureau leaders from their posts. They could only make recommendations to the government...

After figuring this out, Gudlav relaxed slightly.

He and Korokoli, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, belonged to the same faction. Though they were not especially close, Korokoli should protect him for the sake of their faction.

The Duma was probably just venting its anger by summoning him over to "humiliate" him. It should not cause any real harm.

Well, he had offended Mikhail, so he would just swallow this insult.

Consider it giving the