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With 133 votes in favour, six against and three abstentions, the European People’s Party Group withdrew all rights to speaking time in plenary on behalf of the group, to be nominated to lead political files on behalf of the group or represent the party in certain circumstances from the leader of the Fidesz delegation MEP Tamás Deutsch on Wednesday.
The decision is a reaction to Austrian MEP Othmar Karas’ letter – co-signed by a group of his fellow party members to the group’s leadership – asking for the exclusion of Deutsch for comments made to Hungarian media outlets about EPP group leader Manfred Weber’s defence of the rule of law conditionality. He compared the Bavarian politician’s words to the Gestapo and the Hungarian Stalinist secret service. Deutsch later apologised.