Originally posted by tankie
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The "suspension" you presumably mean is that Fidesz, Orban's political party, was suspended by the conservative party bloc in the European Parliament (European People's Party EPP, the same party Tusk, Juncker and Merkel are in). It's just a suspension from taking part in joint meetings of the party bloc, they haven't even kicked them out of the bloc (yet). They can still vote in parliament of course, as that's completely independent of bloc membership. The EPP voted among themselves before doing that btw, without Fidesz. 98.44% in favour of the suspension.
The "suspension" is not in any way related to the Article 7 proceedings the European Parliament decided against Hungary in September last year, which may at some point lead to an actual suspension of voting rights of Hungary in the EU Council. That decision hasn't been acted on at all yet, being stalled by the Romanian government as the current EU presidency.
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