Isaev leaves the General Council of EP

Andrei Isaev brought a public apology for a rowing on an airplane and resigned from his post in United Russia. “I want to apologize to everyone who made the inconvenience of the incident,” said Isaev’s statement published on the party website. “I regret it and think that in this situation, I must take the fullness of responsibility and for my assistant. Realizing that the incident that has happened negatively on the authority of the United Russia party, I consider it right to suspend my own. Membership on the Presidium of the General Council of the party and submitted an application for the addition of the authority of the deputy secretary of the general council. "

At the same time, Isaev does not intend to suspend the party’s membership in the party or hand over the deputy mandate, since "not prosecuted." Secretary of the General Council of EP Sergey Neverov said that Isaev’s statement was adopted and will be considered at a meeting of the General Council. Earlier, Neverov promised to check the "extremely unpleasant incident" with Isaev.

On Tuesday, Isaev and his assistant Alexander Ridlazov were removed from the Aeroflot flight Petersburg - Moscow . When it became known about the scandal, Isaev said that strokes were to blame for everything. "The assistant was detained and fined 100 rubles in connection with the appearance of intoxicated in a public place. There are no complaints against me. I left the board because of the assistant. The claims that were presented to him are legal. I will report to the party’s leadership," Isaev said. He added that the assistant has already filed a care.

Meanwhile, an eyewitness to the scandal, VKontakte vice president Ilya Perekopsky told Izvestia that Isaev took an active part in the conflict. “Isaev said a lot of nasty things about Aeroflot, tried to find out the name of the stewardess, saying that he would fire her,” Perekopsky noted. “As a result, the crew commander forbade him to fly this flight, which caused an even greater wave of negativity at Isaev. Isaev began to indignant even more and remind everyone that he was the deputy and has the status of immunity.”

Perekopsky did not say that Isaev was drunk. “But he was definitely excited,” the eyewitness noted. According to him, the incident occurred as a result of an attempt by an assistant who "was clearly inadequate", carry alcohol aboard.

The head of the Aeroflot public relations department Andrei Sogrin told RIA Novosti that the assistant Isaev was in a state of strong intoxication. The deputy also participated in the scandal, but refused the flight himself. "Ridlazov arrived aboard with the passenger Andrei Isaev, who, during the procedure for refusing the passenger of the passenger Alexander Ridlazov, introduced himself as a State Duma deputy, demanded to transplant the stalk to the business class salon, threatened the crew members with dismissal and personal troubles. As a result, the spots were voluntarily transferred to police officers, and Mr. Isaev refused to fly" - said Sogrin. According to the Sheremetyevo airport scorecles, the SU-027 flight arrived in Moscow with a delay of 1 hour 4 minutes.