EPP has decided, the MEPs of the Tisza Party have been elected, KDNP is leaving – UPDATE
The European People’s Party has decided, the MEPs of the Tisza Party have been elected, and KDNP has left EPP.
Tisza Party and EPP
The Group of the European People’s Party officially decided on Tuesday to welcome 14 new MEPs, including the elected representatives of the Tisza Party.
Among the newly admitted MEPs are Péter Magyar, Dóra Dávid, Zoltán Tarr, András Tivadar Kulja, Eszter Lakos, Gabriella Gerzsenyi and Kinga Kollár, the EPP website said. In addition to Tisza’s MEPs, the centre-right grouping also voted in favour of admitting seven other MEPs into the group.
The big question was whether Péter Magyar would take up the EP mandate, which he had previously said he would have to think about. Around the election, he indicated that he might, mainly because there were no more names on the party’s list of candidates and he would be forced to go to Brussels. He left it to his supporters to decide in a poll, where he gave several arguments for why he should be an MEP.
The statement stressed that with the decision, these MEPs have joined the EPP Political Group, but their parties have not joined the EPP Party.
The decisions on group membership and party membership are independent of each other. According to the EPP’s statement, the admission of the new members will allow the group to consolidate its position “as by far the strongest political Group in the European Parliament”.
As is known, Manfred Weber held talks with Péter Magyar in Budapest last week, and today, he has already spoken about his support for the inclusion of Tisza Party MEPs in the group. The KDNP, meanwhile, is leaving the People’s Party, while Fidesz, the larger governing party, already did so in March 2021. Since then, the Hungarian government has been harshly critical of EPP politician Von der Leyen, president of the European Commission.
According to the latest update from the European Parliament, the EPP will have 190 MEPs, the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats 136, Renew Europe 80, the European Conservatives and Reformists 76, the Identity and Democracy group 58, the Greens 52 and the Left will have 39 MEPs. There are a total of 89 independent or new MEPs, the latter of whom can still join a party group after the formation of the new EP.
Read also:
- Historic meeting: EPP President Manfred Weber and Péter Magyar discuss Tisza party’s joining EPP
- Poll: Hungarians are proud to be citizens of the European Union
UPDATE
KDNP to leave EPP
The Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP), Hungary’s junior ruling party, is leaving the European People’s Party and the party family’s group in the European Parliament, in response to the EPP’s decision to admit Péter Magyar, the leader of opposition Respect and Freedom (Tisza) party, into its EP group, KDNP leader Zsolt Semjén and MEP György Hölvényi said on Tuesday.
KDNP had stated earlier, after talks with EPP leader Manfred Weber, that they disagreed with the party family’s “pro-war doctrine” and opposed “on moral grounds” the admission of Tisza to the party family or that of its leader, Peter Magyar, to the EPP party group, the statement said. “The EPP has shifted to the left and lost its identity in the process, it is no longer the party created by its Christian Democratic founders… Its pro-war doctrine is diametrically opposed to the pro-peace commitment that was at the root of the European Union,” the statement said.
KDNP will continue to represent the interests of Hungarians and Christian Democracy, and Hölvényi “will continue to fight for persecuted Christians”, the statement said.
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What an amazing rise in three months from nowhere to having a group of elected members join the party of the governing coalition in the European Parliament. Meanwhile the Fidesz EP members actually only show up to sign in at parliament to collect a 200 euro payment each time. They don’t bother attending the parliamentary sessions behaving exactly as they are – Nobodies.
Barf.
None of these people are working for the voters of their countries. They’re all carrying the water for the globalist-socialist elites, almost always AGAINST the wishes of their people.
Michael Steiner why not get more creative than using the same catch words parroted on right-wing propaganda sites. You know those words like “globalist”. Why not explain exactly what it is that the Tisza party has done that you object to rather than use a label that any Doofus can parrot? You forgot to mention the bogeymen Soros and Bill Gates who are supposed to control the world and plot evil on a daily basis for Europe and Hungary. Aren’t the Fidesz oligarchs who control the country the real “elite”. Peter Magyar and the EPP are not socialists. That’s for sure.
Steiner Michael – again we read, your moronic political views and opinions, that NEVER cease to amaze, those of us, who comment on Facts, Truth and that NEVER forget that History never Lies.
Orban – the Fidesz Government he leads, in there rapidly occurring / happening, the “diminishing” of there power and influence over the people, the civilians of Hungary, there obliviated Respect, not just in Europe, the European Union or N.A.T. O but the entire Democratic Governed country’s of the world – CONTINUES.
Orban, his Fidesz Government have SCUTTLED this country – Hungary.
Principally – the (3) three Major who are RESPONSIBLE for this “Scuttling” on-going process are :
(1) Victor M. Orban.
(2) – Mihaly Varga.
(3) – Peter Szijjarto.
We NOW the cataclysmic MESS – that the entire Financial & Economic, the Infrastructure of Hungary is at this point in time, delivered us by the Orban – Fidesz Government.
Hungary – we KNOW the LOST relationships caused by the Orban – Fidesz Government, with country’s throughout Europe and Globally, being those Governed under Democracy.
We know, that LIFE in Hungary, for MILLIONS already SMASHED by the Orban – Fidesz Government, still has a way to descend that will be PAINFUL.
WHY do I “label” or BRAND, – Orban, Varga & Szijjarto as the principal (3) Three who are REASONSIBLE – for the humongous DECLINE – gargantuan in fact of Hungary to-day, that includes the Distillation of Democracy ?
History – already CONFIRMS that it is “Beyond Reasonable Doubt” – they, the (3) three, in there Words and in there Actions – there REPRESENTATION of the people of Hungary, of Hungary, have mis-represented Hungary, and conducted them-selves – as the Government of Fidesz Hungary, in there Ministerial positions, and party leader role as a Prime Minister – FALSELY and not in accordance of TRUTH nor FACT.
Rightly it can be included – there PUBLIC exhibitions “mouthing off” – just not in Hungary, throughout Europe and the Global World of Democratic country’s of Governance – there conduct, from there “mouths” in writing, has FAILED dismally to be in accordance with Rules or Laws – that has been “grossly” conduct that has been DISHONEST.
They, this Fidesz Government, will “Fall on there Sword” sooner than later, through the on-going DECLINE of the Hungarian Economy, and the transformation, the movement, growing acceptance of thousands in number of Hungarians – that our FUTURE is NOT in supporting the party that have SCUTTLED our country, but in the Tisza Party.