Thread by @astroehlein

How long does it take for the @EPP to decide that they’re for democracy and not authoritarianism? They’ve been dithering for years on such a fundamental question? Seriously? Just #ExpelFidesz already.

https://twitter.com/LydsG/status/1270617227868463104

Note, former Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel was a member of the 3-man panel. He’s best known for twice forming coalition governments with the hate-mongering, far-right Freedom Party. No way the panel would ever do anything but give a pass to hate-mongering, far-right Orbán

The other thing that tells you the @EPP’s “wise men” panel was never anything more than whitewash job is this: Orbán got to pick his own judges...

https://twitter.com/panyiszabolcs/status/1270416379381010432?s=21

https://t.co/JaXpL1gPf3

Hungary's ruling party has:

- undermined independent courts;

- attacked academic freedom;

- restricted civil society;

- wrecked media freedom;

- starved people in custody;

- run anti-Semitic hate campaigns.

If @EPP supported democratic values, it would #ExpelFidesz

And when I say that Fidesz and Orbán are hate-mongering and far-right, this is what I mean.

This is what the @EPP continues to support...

https://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/1114880518250745857

And yes, I understand the @EPP may block me again - as they did a while back - for pointing all this out. They’re terrible at dealing with legitimate criticism, just as they’re terrible at understanding fundamental democratic values.

And what‘s up with @donaldtuskEPP? He clearly knows he’s helping a monster: a month or two ago, he said an infamous Nazi legal expert would be “proud” of Orbán. Yet Tusk absurdly remains the head of the alliance that includes Orbán’s Fidesz. 🤔

I mean, maybe it’s just me, but when I compare people to Nazis, I don’t then keep hanging out with them.

Another day, another outrage from Hungary’s ruling party...

https://twitter.com/stollmeyereu/status/1270655769504079873?s=21

https://t.co/KpDo80Ceit