09/09/2020 (Agence Europe) – The membership of Fidesz, the political family of Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán, in the European People's Party (EPP) will once again not be on the agenda of the ‘virtual’ political assembly on 28 September. Last spring, 14 national EPP parties had called for a new decision on the exclusion of Fidesz, but, according to a source in the EPP group, based on internal announcements made by the EPP President, Donald Tusk, current “sanitary conditions do not allow for voting” and the decision must be taken “physically”. In early February, before the pandemic, Donald Tusk concluded that he did not have the majority needed to exclude the Hungarian party. He had then extended the suspension of Fidesz until February 2021, before these 14 parties relaunched the issue in April, mainly because of the Hungarian emergency measures (see EUROPE 12463/17). (SP)