The European people’s party (EPP) decided on the suspension of the Hungarian government party Fidesz. The Board of the conservative party, the family decided on Wednesday in Brussels. The Fidesz is the party of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The EPP had proposed this step before officially. This EPP-Board member Esther de informed by the Dutch member party CDV on Wednesday.
The suspension is to apply until a Council of wise men under the leadership of the former EU-has evaluated Ratschefs Herman van Rompuy, whether the Fidesz fulfilled in the long term, the criteria for membership in the EPP. Until then, the rights to rest, as the candidacy for the party post or participate in EPP Meeting.
On the proposal discussed on Wednesday in Brussels, the members of the party group of the CDU and CSU. The two German Union parties are behind the proposal for the suspension and the assessment by the Committee of wise men.
critics accuse Orban in Hungary since the years of democracy and the rule of law to undermine, to bring critical media to Silence and weaken the Opposition by repressive measures such as arbitrary fines. Orban was also the last with its Anti-Brussels campaign in the criticism.
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