Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arriving for the European Council Summit in Brussels last week | Julien Warnand/AFP via Getty Images Orbán slams Brussels ‘elite’ who’ve ‘lost touch with reality’ Comments come just days after ruling Hungarian party was suspended from European People’s Party.

Brussels politicians “live in a bubble” and have created a system that has “lost touch with reality,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said.

“Brussels politicians live in a bubble. They're creating a Brussels bureaucratic elite, which has lost touch with reality,” Orbán told Hungarian public radio, according to Die Zeit.

The remarks come just days after the European People’s Party decided to suspend Orbán’s ruling Fidesz party from the center-right political group following criticism of his government’s poster campaign targeting European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. The campaign had accused Brussels of pushing migration policies that threaten Hungary’s security.

Under the terms of the EPP suspension, a three-man panel will judge whether Fidesz is acting in accordance with the EPP's rules and values. To regain full EPP membership, Fidesz will have to end the anti-Juncker campaign; recognize the damage it caused and refrain from similar action; and resolve a legal dispute over the status of the Central European University in Budapest.

Orbán also encouraged listeners in the radio interview Sunday to vote for Fidesz in the May European Parliament election and “show Brussels that what happens in Hungary is what the Hungarian people want.” He said the outcome of the vote would determine whether Fidesz decides to stay in the EPP group or seeks a new alliance, according to Reuters.

The prime minister also said that “the people in Brussels are a little cross with us because at the beginning of the election campaign, we carried out an information campaign, which exposed the machinations in Brussels.”

“We shouldn’t give in, we shouldn’t be afraid, because the opponent complained and attacked us with the indignation of someone whose agenda was exposed,” he added.

German media reported that a government spokesperson would not answer the question of whether Orbán’s comments meant the campaign targeting Juncker would resume again.

“The words of the prime minister speak for themselves,” the spokesperson said, according to Die Zeit.