Fidesz: Brussels remains corrupt, politically manipulated

The world of Brussels has not changed a bit with the election of Marc Angel as a new Vice-President of the European Parliament, but has remained as “corrupt and politically manipulated” as it was before, an MEP of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz said on Sunday.

“Angel, a new EP vice president, fits fully in the well-known, trendy world that dominates the policy line in Brussels,” Balázs Hidvéghi told public broadcaster Kossuth Rádio’s morning programme. “This can be partly seen in his LGBTQ activism as well as his involvement in sham attacks the [EP’s] Socialists mounted against governments and countries guided by Christian Democratic principles and national sovereignty,” he said.

Angel “has been elected to fill a post that became vacant after its previous holder, the Socialists’ Eva Kaili, was put behind bars”, Hidvéghi said.

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A post of vice president should have gone to a representative of Identity and Democracy (ID), a right-wing conservative group launched in the EP in 2019, to reflect proportions in the EP, he said, adding however that ID politicians “get excluded practically from all ways of operation” including “the possibility to fill posts”.

Hidvéghi noted that the Fidesz group had supported Annalisa Tardino, the Italian ID candidate for the post, but “this centre left, left-wing alliance held the line again, unfortunately with the support of the European People’s Party”. “Nothing is changing, this is the same corrupt and politically manipulated world of Brussels we already know so well,” he said.