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Status: 03.03.2021 11:44 am
Hungary’s Prime Minister Orban has been arguing with the Christian Democratic Party family for years. He has now announced that his Fidesz party is leaving the EPP Group and has therefore planned a suspension.
The twelve MEPs from the Hungarian Fidesz party leave the parliamentary group of the European People’s Christian Democratic Party (EPP) in the European Parliament. The Hungarian Prime Minister and President of Fidesz, Viktor Orban, announced this in a letter to the leader of the EPP parliamentary group, Manfred Weber (CSU). Fidesz Vice President Katalin Novak posted the letter on her Twitter account.
Immediately before that, the PPE Group had voted in a meeting in line with the necessary majority on an amendment to the Regulations that would have made it possible to suspend the Fidesz Group’s membership of the Group.
Orban had already threatened in a letter to Weber last Sunday that Fidesz deputies would be removed from the group if the group approved the change in the rules of procedure. With the resignation of the Fidesz deputies, Orban preceded a vote on the suspension of the Fidesz group, which would probably soon have been put on the agenda.
There were discussions for years
The end of Fidesz’s membership in the PPE parliamentary group marks the end of the year-long feud between the right-wing national Orban and European Christian Democrats, which also include the CDU and the CSU.
At the party level, Fidesz’s membership in the EPP has been suspended since 2019, among other things due to alleged violations of EU fundamental values and verbal attacks against the then head of the EU Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker .
The shift to the right-wing national EKR is conceivable
Fidesz MPs continued to belong to the group until they left it. The break that has now occurred also marks a turning point for the leader of the EPP parliamentary group, Weber, who tried to mediate for a long time, but eventually entered into a strong conflict with Orban.
A change in Fidesz MPs to the right-wing national FCR or even more right-wing group ID in parliament is conceivable. Both would strengthen the right. The EPP would remain the strongest group.
