Mar.3, 2021
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party has quit the centre-right European People’s Party in the European Parliament amid a suspension row with fellow MEPs.
Orban announced the decision in a letter to the chairman of the EPP, Manfred Weber, on Wednesday, making good on his threat to leave the grouping over changes to its internal rules.
The changes, which were voted in by the EPP on Wednesday, allow it to suspend entire political parties rather than just individual MEPs.
Orban said that the reforms “are clearly a hostile move against Fidesz”, which had been sanctioned by the EPP since March 2019 for its anti-Brussels stance.
In his letter on Wednesday, the leader said that the rules were “undemocratic, unjust and unacceptable” at a time when “hundreds of thousands of Europeans are hospitalised and our doctors are saving lives.”
It was shared by Fidesz vice-president Katalin Novak on Twitter, who said the party “will not let our MEPs be silenced or limited in their capacity to represent our voters”.
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