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Watch: Hungary s Ruling Fidesz Party MEPs Quit EPP Group, Slam Changes To Statutes Hungary Matters MEPs of Hungary s ruling Fidesz party have quit the European People s Party (EPP) group after it approved an amendment to the umbrella party s rules at a group meeting. The EPP group voted on Wednesday to change the group’s statutes to make it possible to suspend the membership of a whole group, not just individual MEP members, or to terminate membership collectively if the party group’s rules were seriously breached. Fidesz MEPs Kinga Gál and Tamás Deutsch said it was “unacceptable” that the EPP group had launched “hasty administrative manoeuvers” during the coronavirus epidemic that was “claiming the lives of thousands of European citizens every day, putting unprecedented pressure on our citizens and economies.” ....
MEPs of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party are set to quit the European People’s Party (EPP) group after an amendment to the umbrella party’s rules was approved at a group meeting on Wednesday, according to Fidesz MEPs Kinga Gál, the chairperson of the Fidesz-KDNP EP delegation and Tamás Deutsch, the head of the delegation. Gál and Deutsch told MTI that it was “unacceptable” that the EPP group had launched “hasty administrative manoeuvers” during the coronavirus epidemic that was “claiming the lives of thousands of European citizens every day, putting unprecedented pressure on our citizens and economies.” ....
Fidesz MEPs Leave EPP Group Following New Ruling on Party Suspensions After the European People’s Party passed its vote allowing for the suspension of its member parties, Viktor Orbán sent a letter to EPP Group President Manfred Weber declaring the immediate resignation of all Fidesz representatives from the party’s faction in the European Parliament. The new ruling, passed 148 to 28, allows for the removal of EPP member groups’ privileges. Only 15 percent of the faction is required to call for a vote on the suspension or restriction of a member or a group of members, which can be passed through a 2/3 majority vote in the party. ....