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Viktor Mihály Orbán[1]
(born 31 May 1963) is a Hungarian politician serving as
Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010. He also served as Prime Minister from
1998 to 2002. He is the present leader of the
national conservative
Fidesz party,
a post he has held since 2003 and, previously, from 1993 to 2000.
Born in
Székesfehérvár, Orbán studied law at
Eötvös Loránd University, graduating in 1987. He briefly studied
political science at
Pembroke College, Oxford, before entering politics in the wake of the
Autumn of Nations at the head of the reformist student movement Alliance of
Young Democrats (Fiatal Demokraták Szövetsége), the nascent Fidesz. He
became a nationally known politician after giving an address at the 1989
reburial of
Imre Nagy and other
martyrs of the 1956 revolution, in which he openly demanded that Soviet
troops withdraw from the country.
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After the
transition to democracy in 1990, he was elected to the
National Assembly and served as leader of Fidesz's parliamentary caucus
until 1993. Under his leadership, Fidesz shifted away from its original
centre-right,
classical liberal,
pro-European integration platform toward
right-wing national conservatism. After Fidesz won a plurality of seats in
the
National Assembly in the
1998 elections, Orbán became Prime Minister for four years at the head of a
right-wing coalition government.
Fidesz narrowly lost the
2002 and
2006 elections to the
Socialist Party, and Orbán spent eight years as the leader of the
opposition. The Socialists' rising unpopularity, exacerbated by Prime Minister
Ferenc Gyurcsány's "Őszöd
speech", led to Orbán's
re-election to the premiership in 2010 in a landslide victory (in coalition
with the
Christian Democrats). At the helm of a parliamentary
supermajority, Orbán's cabinet spearheaded
major constitutional and legislative reforms. Fidesz retained its
supermajority in the
2014 and
2018 elections.
Orbán's
social conservatism, national conservatism,
soft Euroscepticism and advocacy of what he describes as an "illiberal
state"[2]
have attracted significant international attention. Some observers have
described his government as
authoritarian or
autocratic.[3][4][5][6]
In August 2018, Orbán became the
second longest-serving Prime Minister after
Kálmán Tisza. If his
current government lasts a full term, upon its completion, he will become
the longest-serving Hungarian Prime Minister in history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Orb%C3%A1n
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May 13:
Viktor Orban Wants Trump’s Help in the European Elections
“America First” Meets “Hungary First”
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/europe/2019-05-13/viktor-orban-wants-trumps-help-european-elections
May 22:
Orban plotting EU takeover as he chases
European election success
HUNGARY’S hardline prime minister Viktor Orbán has urged voters to send a
“strong message” to Brussels in this week’s European elections.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1130613/european-elections-viktor-orban-hungary-eu-populism
May 22:
Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair criticised
for wishing Viktor Orbán and Nigel Farage 'good luck' in EU elections
He was accused of 'cheering on fascists' by critics who branded Mr Orbán a
'notorious antisemite'
https://www.thejc.com/news/world/benjamin-netanyahu-s-son-yair-criticised-wishing-viktor-orb%C3%A1n-nigel-farage-good-luck-eu-elections-1.484589
May 22:
Hungary's Far-Right Government Has
Been Getting a Boost from President Trump Ahead of E.U. Elections
For months, the European Union’s leaders have waged a fierce battle against
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. They have accused him of targeting
minorities and opposition media, and threatened to withdraw Hungary’s voting
rights in the E.U. Parliament, and to eject permanently members of Orbán’s
far-right Fidesz party from the biggest political grouping in the legislative
body in Brussels.
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Yet none of that has succeeded in softening Orbán’s views — far from it. As his
campaign has ramped up for this week’s
crucial E.U. Parliament
elections, so has his hardline rhetoric — especially his opposition to
migrants coming to Europe. In his annual speech to mark Hungary’s national day
on March 15, Orbán said that unless the E.U. halts the flow of migrants to the
Continent, “Europe will no longer belong to Europeans.”
Last Monday, 10 days ahead of the E.U. elections, that hard line received a
pre-election boost, when President Donald Trump welcomed Orban to the White
House. Trump
told him in the Oval Office that “you have been great with respect to
Christian communities, you have really put up a block up” against non-Christian
immigrants.
http://time.com/5590134/hungary-foreign-minister-interview/
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