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The eurosceptic and anti-immigration Hungarian leader has been accused of regularly breaching the rules of the European Union and targeting senior EPP members with his provocative speeches and anti-EU billboards. And today the 260 members of the EPP, a grouping including representatives from Angela Merkel’s CDU, Spain’s People’s Party and France’s The Republicans, will vote on whether to expel or suspend Fidesz's membership. Mr Orban will be given the right to defend himself in person at today’s meeting, according to Hungarian media.

But Fidesz will immediately quit the EPP if members of the European group decide to suspend it, Mr Orban's chief of staff on Wednesday. Gergely Gulyas said: "It is about the dignity of Fidesz and the country." Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, also known as AKK, who became Germany’s CDU leader in late 2018, advocated a membership “freeze” for Mr Orban’s party, to last until trust between Budapest and Brussels was rebuilt. She said: "As long as Fidesz does not fully restore trust there cannot be normal full membership.” READ MORE: EU split: EU bosses attack Orban's claims of plot to draw immigrants to Europe

Viktor Orban's party Fidesz may be kicked out from the EPP today

Conservative European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker took a harsher position and advised the coalition to expel Fidesz. He had already argued earlier this year the party doesn’t “represent Christian democratic values”. He said: “The conservatives in Hungary in no way whatsoever represent Christian democratic values. “I’m of the opinion that there’s no place for them in the European People’s Party.” Mr Orban has been accused of not sticking to the European immigration policy by refusing to take in the set quota of migrants, stoking hatred with anti-immigration campaigns and clamping down on the media.

The anti-Juncker poster which sparked outrage in Brussels

Brussels and Budapest came to a head in December last year, when the government slashed judicial independence by creating a parallel court system which cements executive control over the judiciary one - despite the EU warned against it. But the relationship between Fidesz and the EPP crumbled when Mr Orban’s government launched a poster campaign accusing Mr Juncker of promoting mass immigration threatening Hungary’s security. The billboards, some of which have been covered up following the outrage they sparked, depicted Mr Juncker as a puppet manipulated by billionaire US philanthropist George Soros into backing uncontrolled immigration. The posters were met with anger by EPP leader and Mrs Merkel’s protégé tipped to be the next Commission president, Manfred Weber.

Viktor Orban will be given the right to defend himself in person at today’s meeting

Graffiti claiming the anti-Juncker posters were removed