Some of you however did not stop there. The activists in Clermont held an action outside the Hungarian Consulate in Lyon, while members of Animo held a silent demonstration in Brussels. This is what being an activist is about, seeing injustice and needing to act. If you want to do more for the people of Hungary then feel free to organise your own events (with agreement from your local member party of course). It doesn’t have to be big, it can just be symbolic. FIDESZ is far from defeated so keep up the pressure and spread the word that undermining democracy, the rule of law, media freedom and human rights has no place in the European Union.
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Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to you as a concerned citizen regarding the actions of the European People’s Party (EPP) of which you are a member.
Hungarian democracy is under siege. The actions of the conservative FIDESZ Government under Prime Minister Viktor Orban have resulted in an unprecedented attack on basic international democratic standards. It is an extraordinary thing to say in the year 2012, but the cold hard fact is that the European Union could now be said to include a non-democratic state as one of its members.
So far we have had a shocking absence of condemnation from European Conservative leaders, who count FIDESZ among their family. Despite a year of steady erosion of democratic standards, there has been near silence. It is only now that the Hungarian Government is attacking the independence of the Central Bank that leaders have been stirred from their slumber.
The European Peoples Party (EPP), which counts FIDESZ as a member, should suspend its Hungarian affiliate until internationally acceptable democratic standards are re-established in Hungary. As a parallel measure, the European Parliament should call on the 14 FIDESZ MEPs to reject the actions of the FIDESZ Government and to commit themselves to upholding internationally acceptable democratic standards.
As a democratically elected representative, if you are not capable of protecting democracy in another EU member state, then why should I have confidence that you can protect democracy in mine?
Yours Sincerely
