Tuesday, October 3, 2023
 
 

Hungary's Orbán questions EPP ideology and leader

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Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s Prime Minister, in a memorandum sent to European People’s Party (EPP) leadership called for an internal debate on the future mission of EPP, aiming at altering its strategic line.
“We became a centrist party alliance, sliding from the Christian-right wing towards the left,” said the Hungarian PM, adding that the party has failed its voters, which explains why it has lost much of the power it used to have.
In a three pages letter, the Hungarian PM slammed the party for “applauding Fidel Castro and Karl Marx,” instead of “stepping up against communism and Marxism,” in an effort to demonstrate the party’s degeneration from its “traditional” beliefs.
“We gave up the family model based on the matrimony of one woman and one man, and fell into the arms of gender ideology,” the Hungarian PM added.
Orbán also questioned Donald Tusk‘s election as EPP leader and his capacities to take over the post, citing that he brought “Polish domestic conflicts and interests” into the party.
He also criticised the party for trying to address Europe’s demographic crisis through migration and not through encouraging birth rates, as Hungary has been long campaigning for increasing fertility rates across the country and the bloc, and has called in vitro fertilisation (IVF) a matter of “strategic importance”.
Orban’s ‘s ruling Fidesz party was suspended from EPP last March and an evaluation committee was tasked by the party to make a suggestion regarding the Hungarian party’s future. On early February, EPP leaders agreed with Tusk’s decision to extend the suspension of Fidesz party’s membership.

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