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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12248

7 May 2019
INSTITUTIONAL / Epp
Viktor Orbán withdraws his support for Christian Democratic Spitzenkandidat Manfred Weber
Brussels, 06/05/2019 (Agence Europe)

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán considered on Monday 6 May that none of the top candidates (Spitzenkandidaten) of the European political parties for the May European elections would have his support, not even the European People's Party (EPP) candidate, the German, Manfred Weber.

He "will not have the vote of the Hungarians", said the Prime Minister on the occasion of the visit to Budapest of Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of the far-right FPÖ party.

The...

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