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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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