2 minutes agoOrban Party Leaves EPP, Parting LDK
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The ruling Hungarian party, Fidesz, has said it will leave the main political grouping of centre-right parties, The EPP in the European Parliament after this grouping had voted to amend domestic laws on the exclusion of members. 180 EPP members, most of whom have campaigned [...]
The 180 EPP members, most of whom have campaigned to exclude Fidesz, whom the party accuses of weakening Hungarian democracy and violating media freedoms, voted with 148 votes for and 28 against new regulations.
The party's leader, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said in a letter posted on Twitter that it was “misleading” from the middle of the pandemic The EPP was restricting its representatives' rights.
“This is anti-democratic, unfair and unacceptable,” he said, Pryscopi conveys.
Orban's decision to leave parliament's largest political bloc ends long years of debate among EPP parties over whether or not this populist party should be expelled.
Within the EPP is the Democratic League of Kosovo. /The Guardian/Periscope
