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According to the Prime Minister, this would also provide a solution to the problem that although Fidesz was suspended in the party family “by common will”, its members could still remain in the Popular Party faction. “We have never raised and discussed this issue in depth,” writes Viktor Orbán in his letter, who proposes a cooperation formula like the one that existed between 1999-2009 between the EPPs and the MEPs of the British Conservative Party.
The newspaper notes that at that time the islanders joined the Popular Party faction as an external ally, forming a separate group within it. In those years, the political group was called the Group of the European People’s Party and European Democrats (EPP-ED), the latter nominating the conservative parties. However, the British Conservatives could only join the Christian Democrats without being members of any European party family. In other words, the association proposed by Orbán can only be nurtured by members of the EPP European Parliament group who do not belong to the European People’s Party.
Therefore, Fidesz would have to first leave the political community of Christian Democrats so that its MEPs could conclude a cooperation agreement with the group.
According to sources from Népszava EP, the letter written by the president of Fidesz is nothing more than an undercover announcement that the party is preparing to leave the Christian Democratic party family.
They would have if …
The political assembly of the European People’s Party would have already decided to exclude Fidesz if the coronavirus epidemic had not hit, Manfred Weber told the Flemish newspaper De Standaard. According to the leader of the Popular Party faction, Fidesz constantly loses its popularity within the party family due to Viktor Orbán’s veto.
Viktor Orbán’s attempt to create a new ideology, which he calls illiberal democracy, is in fact an abnormal democracy. In short, democracy without the rule of law and freedom of expression is not democracy at all
– Donald Tusk, president of the European People’s Party (EPP), expressed his not so flattering opinion on Viktor Orbán and the situation in Hungary in an interview with Free Europe.
The Polish politician, who is the leader of the Fidesz party family in the European Parliament, pointed out that equally negative processes are taking place in his homeland, Poland.
It is known that in 2019 the European People’s Party suspended Fidesz’s membership due, among other things, to problems related to the Hungarian rule of law, according to which Fidesz representatives cannot participate in faction meetings or vote within the group.
Featured Image: Faction Leader Manfred Weber Photo: Getty Images Hungary / Picture Alliance
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