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Hungary ruling party quits European centre-right group: PM Orban
BUDAPEST, March 3, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Hungary’s ruling right-wing Fidesz
party quit the conservative European People’s Party (EPP) grouping in the
European Parliament Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.
“I hereby inform you that Fidesz MEPs resign their membership in the EPP
group,” Orban said in a letter to EPP group leader Manfred Weber posted on
Twitter by one of Orban’s ministers.
The decision to quit followed a vote by the group to adopt a rules change
that was billed as a way to expel Orban’s party from their ranks.
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