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Hungarian MEP Tamas Deutsch caused irritation in November with a Gestapo deal. Now time and speaking positions are withdrawn.
The Group of the European People’s Party (EPP) has suspended the head of the Hungarian Fidesz delegation in the European Parliament, Tamas Deutsch, following his controversial Gestapo arrangement, but has not excluded him. The time and German-speaking seats to which the EPP would be entitled in parliament will be withdrawn immediately, the group announced Thursday night.
The vice-president of the EU Parliament, Othmar Karas (ÖVP), was satisfied with the decision. “My initiative has had an impact,” wrote Karas on Twitter. He was pleased that the PPE Group “condemns his unspeakable comparisons as much as I do and that the consequences are now being drawn.” Karas had presented a motion for the exclusion of German, which was signed by about 40 MPs from the EPP.
Fidesz MEPs are asked to “reflect on whether their fundamental political convictions remain compatible with the values and core content of the PPE Group.” The EPP is called upon to decide on the final status of Fidesz as soon as the health situation allows it again.
Deutsch had compared the efforts of the EPP parliamentary group and its president Manfred Weber for the rule of law in Europe with those of the National Socialist Gestapo and the Hungarian Stalinist secret service AVO.
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