13 conservative parties in the european UNION recommend breach of the cooperation with Hungary’s ruling party.
13 conservative parties in Europe calling on their members in the European Parliament to throw the Hungarian governing party Fidesz out of the conservative group, the EPP.
Fidesz led by prime minister Viktor Orbán.
It happens as a reaction to Hungary’s parliament earlier in the week gave Orban the opportunity to govern per the decree under coronakrisen.
the Statement about throwing the Fidesz out of the EPP-cooperation from Denmark signed by a Conservative president, Søren Pape Poulsen.
a Conservative member of the European Parliament, Pernille Weiss, has previously expressed that Fidesz has no place in the EPP.
the Letter is signed by the parties in Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Greece, Lithuania, the Czech republic and Slovakia.
Critics say that there is an end date on the Hungarian government’s new powers, and that it will give Orban unheard of power.
Hungary is already suspended from the EPP to restrict the rule of law and democracy. But the party is not yet thrown out.
The joint statement from the 13 parties gives them a stronger hand. That is how it sounds from the previous Polish EU president Donald Tusk, according to AFP.
even if they do not represent a majority of the group, said Tusk. He is currently president of the EPP. He has even pushed for the EPP had to put distance to Orban.
In the letter from the 13 parties invited the EU Commission to “powerful to take the situation in Hungary up”. They call Orban latest features with dekretstyre for “a violation of the basic principles of liberal democracy and european values”.
the EPP group is the largest block in the European Parliament. The German chancellor Angela Merkel’s party the CDU is the largest party in the EPP.
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