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On Wednesday night, the PE faction of the Popular Party will meet between six and eight and, according to one of the points on the agenda, the expulsion of Fidesz member Tamás Deutsch will also be voted on. With the resignation of József Szájer, Deutsch became the head of the Fidesz MEP delegation and has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009.
Deutsch’s expulsion was initiated by his fellow MPs because he called it a method of the Gestapo and ÁVH, as Manfred Weber, the leader of the faction, spoke about the position of the Hungarian government on the budget veto. Deutsch later apologized, Weber warned everyone to rest, and last Thursday the Hungarian government withdrew its veto. However, the exclusion of the politician remained on the agenda.
Fidesz’s membership in the Popular Party was suspended in March 2019 and the decision to completely exclude the party has been pending since then, but party representatives may remain members of the parliamentary faction.
As the Socialist MEP István Ujhelyi points out in his post on Wednesday morning, abstentions will not be taken into account in the vote to exclude Deutsch. This was also confirmed to our newspaper by sources from the Popular Party. This is interesting because the Hungarian government challenged the adoption of the Sargentini report in the EU court because abstentions were also not taken into account there, which means that a voting technique against Deutsch is now being used that the Hungarian government says is not. it is legitimate. Exclusion requires a two-thirds majority.
An anonymous Fidesz previously told the ATV that if Deutsch were excluded, Fidesz could leave the People’s Party group.
Last week, the party’s chairman, Viktor Orbán, proposed that Fidesz be an outside ally of the People’s Party, as were the British Conservatives at the turn of the millennium, but did not receive a substantial response to his idea.
Tibor Navracsics said in a podcast on Euronews Monday afternoon that he was aware that Fidesz’s membership in the People’s Party was in jeopardy.
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