Swedish Moderate Party to push for the expulsion of Orban’s party from EPP
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Sweden’s Moderate Party will push for the European People’s Party to expel Hungary’s Fidesz in the wake of Viktor Orbán’s campaign against Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
Ulf Kristersson, the Swedish party’s leader, told Aftonbladet: “Our aim is to, in accordance with the EPP statutes, gather [support from] seven member parties from five different countries to exclude Fidesz.
“Kullgren argues that Hungary has had a negative trend for a long time with regard to the rule of law and the rules of democracy. It became even more serious when the think tank Freedom House described Hungary as “partly free” – a status that no previous EU country received.
M-leader Kristersson says that his party will be in the lead for Fidesz to be thrown out. One of the first steps is to gather at least seven parties from five countries, to start an exclusion process in EPP. The group, which also includes the German CDU and CSU, collects Christian Democratic and conservative parties in Europe and is the largest party group in the European Parliament.
Ulf Kristersson says the recent weeks’ statements from Orbán and Fidesz have been completely “horribly”.
“ There is an anti-Semitic undertone and a language that is completely unacceptable,” says Kristersson, and aims at, among other things, campaigns against the American, Hungarian-born billionaire and philanthropist George Soros and EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker.
The campaigns follow a frequently used pattern in which Soros and the EU are accused of wanting to allow, as described, immigrants flood Europe.
The EU has initiated a formal procedure, a so-called Article 7 procedure against Hungary, for departing from basic values in the Union.”
