Non-partisan deputy who spent vacation in the UAE was expelled from United Russia supporters

The Presidium of the General Council of “United Russia” “expelled from the supporters” of the party the deputy of the Vologda Regional Duma Denis Dolzhenko due to the fact that he “committed actions discrediting the party.” Secretary of the General Council of the party Andrei Turchak promised to deprive him of his party card, but it turned out that Denis Dolzhenko was not a party member.

“The faction of United Russia in the Legislative Assembly of the region was also recommended to exclude Denis Dolzhenko from its membership and decide to dismiss him from the post of Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on Economic Policy and Property,” the party said in a statement. Telegram.

Earlier, Volgograd MP Denis Dolzhenko published a photo from a vacation in the UAE. On January 9, Secretary of the United Russia General Council Andrey Turchak wrote in his Telegram channelthat for this he will be deprived of his membership card. He attached to the post a screenshot with a photo of a deputy from Dubai, which was published on the VKontakte social network on January 6. “You can do a lot of things in life – run, dive, ski… But there is a time and a place for everything,” Mr. Turchak wrote.

Commenting on the words of the Secretary of the General Council, Denis Dolzhenko explained, which is a non-partisan deputy and does not have a party card. “I am on official leave, I took it in order to take the child out to the sea on the recommendations of doctors and show it to specialists,” the deputy added.

Earlier, a similar situation occurred with the deputy of the Kursk Regional Duma Maxim Vasilyev (also not a member of United Russia, he was elected as an independent candidate). The network got a video in which he says hello while on vacation in Mexico. Andrey Turchak offered the deputy, as well as his wife, also a deputy, to resign and suggested that they could be moved to this decision by “Wagner’s sledgehammer” or “Starovoit’s kick” – the governor of the Kursk region, who also criticized the deputy.

More about what happened – in the material “Kommersant” “The joke didn’t work”.

Erdni Kagaltynov