Viktor’s Hungarian party Orban after leaving the EPP group in the European Parliament, he also leaves the European People’s Party. This was announced by the Hungarian minister Katalin Novak who posted a letter on Twitter addressed to Antonio Lopez-Isturiz, general secretary of the European People’s Party. “Fidesz no longer intends to remain a member of the EPP”, reads the letter. The minister herself adds in her tweet: “‘it’s time to say goodbye”.
The EPP had suspended Fidesz ahead of the European parliamentary elections in 2019, but stopped before finally expelling him, despite the fact that Prime Minister Viktor Orban had signed posters demonizing Jean-Claude Juncker, a member of the EPP and then head of the European Commission. “I think Mr. Orban is very far from basic democratic Christian values,” Juncker replied at the time.
EU Parliament, Hungarian leader Orban announces the withdrawal of his party from the EPP
by Andrea Tarquini
Fidesz had already left the EPP group in the European Parliament earlier this month. The EPP is the largest party in the European Parliament and its largest national contingent are Angela Merkel’s German conservatives. Orban’s nationalist policies appeal to smaller European blocs to the right of the EPP such as the Eurosceptic Ecr, or the right-wing Id which includes the French NationalRally and the far-right Italian League.
Orban has said in the past that he is in talks with like-minded parties about a new political alliance. Orban, 57, has been in office since 2010. He will face elections in 2022 with the opposition united against him for the first time, and opinion polls are very uncertain.
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