Viktor Orbán indicated in a letter that he would leave the European People’s Party

Viktor Orbán proposes a new type of cooperation between the Fidesz EP delegation and the parliamentary group of the European People’s Party (EPP) in a letter to Manfred Weber, leader of the group. In the document held by Népszava, the Prime Minister refers to the relaxation of relations between Fidesz and the Popular Party in the future to avoid differences of opinion and interests and communication problems.

The relationship between the party family and Fidesz has already been strained, most recently by the fault of the deputy to the EP Tamás Deutsch: the Hungarian politician responded to Weber’s request to Viktor Orbán, in which he began that the Hungarian prime minister, if he considers his country to refrain from vetoing the EU budget, but Deutsch said the Gestapo and ÁVÓ communicated in this tone. Therefore, thirty-five of his fellow party members have initiated the expulsion of a politician from the EP who finally apologized to Weber. However, Fidesz’s membership has been suspended in the PPE since March 2019 and since then it has not been able to participate in the party’s decision-making.

However, neither an exclusion decision nor peace on this is desired, as can be seen in Deutsch’s private conflict, but also in the Prime Minister’s letter to Weber last Friday. In this, the prime minister lists the grievances and then culminates in his complaint which he throws in the eyes of the EPP faction leader: “You are the first to look at us like a bastard!”

Now, according to the letter received by Népszava, according to Orbán, loosening the relationship with the EPP – this can be practically interpreted as a way out, because there is no choice between the current situation and the “broader solution outside” – would solve the problem of suspension, which was never properly discussed. parties. Viktor Orbán proposes a formula for cooperation between the EPP and British Conservative MEPs between 1999 and 2009. In those ten years, the islanders joined the Popular Party as an external ally, forming a separate group. At that time, the political group was called the Group of the European People’s Party and European Democrats (EPP-ED), the latter nominating conservative supporters, ”the newspaper writes.

The catch of the method is that the British Conservatives were not members of any European party family, so now the Fidesz representatives would have to resign and then meet from the outside. This, in turn, requires acceptance of the democratic values ​​professed by the EPP and the will of the other party.