Hungary Fidesz Party suspended from EPP

Prime Minister Viktor Orban notes Fidesz cannot be ejected or suspended; “we have won four elections by the will of Hungarian citizens.” … He noted that Fidesz had garnered 47, 56, and 52 percent of the votes during the past three European parliamentary elections, respectively. “A party like that will obviously not allow itself to be ejected or suspended but will stand up and leave instead,” he said.

https://thehungaryjournal.com/2019/03/20/fideszs-membership-suspended-in-the-epp/

“The prime minister added, at the same time, that in recent weeks, thirteen parties from ‘the leftist-liberal branch of this colourful community’ had proposed that ‘those who are firmly on the Christian conservative side’ should be expelled from the EPP. ‘Those are us,’ he said. Orban said certain political forces were looking to turn the EPP into an organisation ‘with a much narrower profile whose centre of gravity is not where it is now but much further to the left, in a liberal direction’”.