Tamás Deutsch, an MEP of Hungary's ruling Fidesz, told MTI at a press conference in Strasbourg on Tuesday that the leftist turn of the European People's Party (EPP) took place during the five years when incumbent Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk served as the party family's president, and, as a result, the party does not have a single Christian Democratic feature anymore.
"A party that used to be a pan-European Christian Democratic party has become a formation fully endorsing the agenda of the left-wing liberal mainstream," he said, after a debate held in the European Parliament on Poland's program for the presidecy of the European Council, which it took over from Hungary in January. "Brussels has parachuted Donald Tusk, an important figure of the liberal, globalist, Soros-linked political circle, into the election campaign of Poland, a key battlefield state in central Europe," Deutsch said.
Deutsch said it was yet to be seen "how the Soros-linked globalist Brussels elite will respond to the significant political change that has taken place in the Western world".
Commenting on the Polish EU presidency's programme, Deutsch said "Brussels's fight against the ongoing patriotic turn is increasingly desperate."
He said that the issue of war and peace had been hardly mentioned in Tusk's speech, "but he continued to emphasise the importance of fact-checking and European media regulations which in fact strengthen the institutionalised censorship in social media...".
On another topic, Deutsch noted that the legal affairs committee of the EP is tabling the issue of the immunity of Peter Magyar, and MEP and leader of the Hungarian opposition Tisza Party on Thursday.
"Despite his earlier statements that the had not sought to be a politician and deemed immunity unnecessary, Magyar now insists on it....," Deutsch said. "Peter Magyar and his supporters, including EPP leader Manfred Weber and his party and the left-wing parties, are working together on dragging this issue out for as long as possible," he added.