• EU Luxembourg sees Orban's appeal against the European Parliament on the issue of the rule of law unfounded

It was not a surprise, there seemed to be no alternative and everyone is more or less satisfied with the result, but the announcement this morning that Fidesz,

Viktor Orban's party

, will leave the popular group in the European Parliament has shaken like an earthquake community policy.

After years of

war strips, insults, juggling impossible, taunts and slights, and an indefinite suspension of the match,

Orban has chosen to go before they threw him.

The decision, for the moment, affects only the group in the European Parliament and not formally the European People's Party.

But the permanence in this, chaired by

Donald Tusk

, the person in Brussels who has most requested the expulsion of Orban, seems very complicated.

In Brussels, party and group do not always go hand in hand.

You can be part of a political family, but later fit into another group.

It is not frequent, but there are cases for different reasons.

But in the case of Fidesz, with the political burden of the decision, it will be very delicate.

And it would make it very difficult, if not impossible, for him to join groups like ECR, the conservatives that host Vox or the ruling party in Poland.

The reasons are well known, after an increasingly authoritarian and populist drift, but

the trigger was this Wednesday's decision by the popular group to change its internal rules

, in such a way that the expulsion of unruly members or those who directly go against the statutes of the popular family were much simpler.

Orban warned that if that vote was consummated there would be no point of return.

And there hasn't been.

The motion in the European People's Party went ahead with 148 votes in favor, 28 against and 4 abstentions.

And minutes later, Orban sent a letter to the German

Manfred Weber

, the leader of the group in the European Parliament, informing me of his departure.

"President, I hereby inform you that the members of Fidesz resign their membership in the group of the European People's Party. With hundreds of thousands of Europeans in hospital and doctors busy saving their lives it is very disappointing to see that the popular group he is paralyzed by his internal administrative affairs and tries to silence our democratically elected MEPs, "the letter says.

"The amendment to the internal regulations is clearly in a hostile movement against Fidesz and our voters () therefore, Fidesz has decided to leave the group immediately," the document can read.

The letter is for Weber, not Tusk

The situation of these years has been like an open wound, without causing a collapse of the system, but draining forces.

The EPP, led by Weber, was reluctant to kick Orban out or to let him go.

That is why in 2019 its temporary suspension was approved, which is still in force.

A way to freeze the problem, without taking it to the extreme.

The leadership of the popular family gave him time to correct his attitude, and at the same time he could send the message to Europe that action had been taken.

The theory behind the reasoning is well known: Orban inside was a stone in the shoe, a problem of image and coherence, a way of losing credibility, but

Orban outside is an even bigger problem for Europe.

Not only because of the loss of its 13 deputies for the group, but also because the example they have most present is that of

David Cameron's

Tories

.

While they were in the EPP they were a problem, when they left Brexit ended up.

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