EVP-Kongress
The EPP must reach out to the political “wise men” and stop adopting left-wing issues. RMDSZ chairman Hunor Kelemen made this clear announcement at the two-day congress of the conservative party family in Bucharest.
Kelemen took the floor as one of the hosts and as a representative of the party that has the longest membership in the EPP family from Romania. The Transylvanian Hungarian Association RMDSZ is a close ally of Fidesz, which split from the People’s Party in the dispute and will very likely find a new political home in a faction further to the right in the European elections in June. Kelemen, in turn, may have used the last opportunity to appeal to the EPP’s European politicians, as his party is in danger of failing at the 5% hurdle.
Just like the Greens and Liberals
The RMDSZ chairman asked the delegates to look in the mirror, because the EPP bears great responsibility for the current desolate state of the EU. “Angry, disappointed and insecure people want security and predictability.” The EPP must lend a helping hand to the political wise men, i.e. the farmers and small business owners who have been abandoned for years, as well as the national minorities. “We have to stand out from socialists, greens and liberals! We cannot use the same slogans and themes as them, because then we will become just like them. And our voters are turning away without us being able to win over their voters,” warned the Hungarian. The EU is putting its competitiveness at risk by sacrificing itself on the altar of a rushed green transition. The fight against climate change should not require more victims than it brings.
KDNP at the People’s Party
The two-day EPP congress at the Romexpo exhibition center in Bucharest counted 800 delegates and eleven heads of state and government. Representing the KDNP, Fidesz’s small coalition partner, party leader and deputy prime minister Zsolt Semjén took part. The EPP is the largest group in the European Parliament. On Thursday, delegates decided with more than 80% of the vote to nominate Ursula von der Leyen as the top candidate for the office of Commission President. As is well known, she only holds the office because, among other things, Fidesz rejected the original candidate Manfred Weber.
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