Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced on Wednesday March 3 that his party was leaving the group of the European People's Party (EPP, right) in the European Parliament, in reaction to a vote by MEPs on a reform of the statutes paving the way for exclusion.
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"
I inform you that the members of Fidesz are withdrawing from the PPE group
" with "
immediate effect
", writes the leader in a letter posted on Twitter by one of his ministers, denouncing an "
undemocratic, unjust and unacceptable
" approach.
