Tags: Hungary | European Union | EPP

Hungary Pulls Its Ruling Party out of EU's Conservatives

Wednesday, 03 March 2021 06:01 AM EST

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s governing party pulled out of its conservative group in the European Union’s legislature on Wednesday following years of conflict over the rule of law and European values.

The right-wing Fidesz party has held a two-thirds majority in Hungary’s parliament almost uninterrupted since 2010. It left the European People’s Party over the latter’s adoption on Wednesday of new procedures allowing for entire parties to be excluded from the group rather than just individual lawmakers.

In a letter Wednesday to Manfred Weber, chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced Fidesz’s decision to leave the group.

“The amendments to the rules of the EPP Group are clearly a hostile move against Fidesz and our voters ... This is anti-democratic, unjust and unacceptable. Therefore, the governing body of Fidesz has decided to leave the EPP Group immediately,” Orban wrote.

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Hungary's governing party pulled out of its conservative group in the European Union's legislature on Wednesday following years of conflict over the rule of law and European values.The right-wing Fidesz party has held a two-thirds majority in Hungary's parliament almost...
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