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Viktor Orbán
Viktor Mihály Orbán is a Hungarian lawyer and politician who served as the prime minister of Hungary from 1998 to 2002 and from 2010 to 2026. He has also been the president of Fidesz, which has been variously characterised as a Christian nationalist, illiberal, and far-right political party. He has served as its president since 2003, and previously from 1993 to 2000.
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Hungary Today: Mystery Surrounds Viktor Orbán’s White House Visit
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The Economist: Can Viktor Orban be beaten?
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Hungary Today: The "Quiet One" Becomes FIDESZ Parliamentary Leader, as Orbán Calls for National Resistance
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Hungarian Conservative: Hungary Pulls €170M EU Grant from Orbán-Linked Billionaire Four Days after Approval
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inkl: Hungary elects Orban critic Andras Baka as first president of new political era
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RFI: Hungary elects Orban critic Andras Baka as first president in new political era
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Mshale: Hungary Election 2026: Can Viktor Orbán Be Voted Out After 16 Years? Celta Vs Levante (IEDXhRtNeD)
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The Budapest Times: Government files criminal complaint over Orbán social media contracts
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Mshale: Hungary Election Shock: Peter Magyar Defeats Viktor Orbán After 16 Years In Power Manduria (f9gkHQlGzg)
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Mshale: Hungary Votes As PM Orban Faces Toughest Election Challenge In Years Backlash 2026 (TAIAyvDTxU)
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dw.com: Hungary's parliament elects Orban critic as new president
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Luxembourg Times: Hungary elects Baka as new President in shift From Orbán era
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The Bulwark: What Does Hungary’s New President Mean for Its Post-Orbán Future?
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NewsCord: Hungary’s Parliament Elects András Baka as President After Viktor Orbán’s Era: 32 outlets compared
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The News Pakistan: Orban-critic ex-judge becomes Hungary president
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Mshale: Orban Loses BIG - Hungary Election Results Explained Dillon Danis (8FlYCd9Oi8)
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Published video “Mit kell tennünk nekünk, jobboldaliaknak”.
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Published video “Ma Magyarországon a nemzeti ellenállás célja a szabadság helyreállítása.”.
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Published video “A hibáinkból tanulni kell, a vívmányainkra pedig büszkének lenni! 💪”.
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Published video “Széllel szemben 🌬️”.
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Published video “Számvetés.”.
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Published video “Hajdu János, a mi hősünk.”.
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Published video “Itt mindig otthon voltunk, itt mindig otthon vagyunk. ❤️”.
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Published video “Itthon vagyunk! 🇭🇺❤️”.
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Published video “A Fidesz küldetése: alázat és szolgálat.”.
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Published video “Ha nem az emberek döntik el, hogy kire szavaznak, akkor a demokráciának befellegzett.”.
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Reported claimRated False. Ms von der Leyen continues to be president of the commission, and is due to continue in the role until the next European elections in 2029. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “Viktor Orbán has taken control of the European Commission from Ursula von der Leyen.” False. Ms von der Leyen continues to be president of the commission, and is due to continue in the role until the next European elections in 2029..
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After the defeat in the Parliamentary elections, Orbán said he would leave his Parliament seat but hoped to remain as head of Fidesz
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Lead Stories rated the claim “There is an official poll in Hungary where Orbán gets 68% of the vote while Péter Magyar gets 35%” Total = 103%.
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Awarded Supreme Order of Turkic World (2024).
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Orbán said that immigration to Europe would disintegrate the European Union and called it an "existential issue" for the EU
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A decision was made to return 430,000 illegal migrants from EU countries, and just 84,000 have been returned so far
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Orbán criticized the EU's New Pact on Migration and Asylum, saying, "Unity is dead, secure borders are no more
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During his visit to Kazakhstan, Orbán said that Hungarians come to Kazakhstan "with great pleasure" because the two nations are connected by "millennial common roots"
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Awarded Order of the Republic of Serbia presented by Aleksandar Vučić in Belgrade (2022).
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Awarded Order of St. Sava presented by Porfirije Perić in Budapest (2022).
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Orbán's opponent was given just five minutes on the national television "to make his case to the voters"
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The European Parliament stated that "Hungary can no longer be considered a full democracy" and that the country has become an "electoral autocracy"
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Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (2022–2026).
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Was condemned by the International Auschwitz Committee for comments in which he criticised mixing "with non-Europeans"
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The parliament transferred control of 11 state universities to foundations led by allies of Orbán
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His party proposed new legislation to censor any "LGBT+ positive content" in movies, books or public advertisements and to severely restrict sex education in school forbidding any information thought to "encourage gender
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And was, according to governor Ron DeSantis's press secretary, inspired by it
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Orbán mentioned that the Hungarian and Turkic peoples share a historical and cultural heritage "reaching back many long centuries"
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Orbán's government passed a bill which privatized 11 Hungarian universities and subsequently were endowed billions of euros in assets from the state budget, as well as real estate and shares in large companies
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As 96th in its "electoral democracy index" that measures "whether elections were free and fair, as well as the prevalence of a free and independent media", sitting between Benin and Malaysia
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Orbán's government ended legal recognition of transgender people, receiving criticism both in Hungary and abroad
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The government passed a law taking control of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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That "For the west, the answer is immigration
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Freedom House downgraded the country from "free" to "partly free"
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Hungary obtained observer status in the council
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Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (2018–2022).
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Orbán stated: "In Hungary, there is a consensus that climate change is real, that it is dangerous and since it is a global phenomenon, it requires global action to combat it
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It submitted an application for accession to the International Turkic Academy
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Saying: "His plan treats the protection of national borders as the objective and the refugees as an obstacle
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And replaced with a flat rate of 16% on gross income, and income taxes on those aged 25 years or younger was abolished entirely in 2021
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Orbán wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Europe's response is madness
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While in April 2019, Orbán attended a BRI forum in Beijing, where he met the Chinese leader Xi Jinping
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The New York Times acknowledged that Orbán's stance on migration is slowly becoming mainstream in European politics
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To the Faith Church, a Pentecostal denomination, and is currently a minister
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Their eldest daughter, Ráhel, is married to entrepreneur István Tiborcz, whose company, Elios, was accused of receiving unfair advantages when winning public tenders. (see Elios case) Orbán's son, Gáspár, is a retired footballer, who played for Ferenc Puskás Football Academy in 2014.
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His son Gáspár Orbán converted in 2014 to the Faith Church, a Pentecostal denomination, and is currently a minister.
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Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (2014–2018).
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Awarded Order 8-September presented by Gjorge Ivanov (2013).
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With the fund closing its Budapest office later that year
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Who describe their mission as "preserving national identity, sovereignty and Christian social traditions"
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Funded by the Batthyány Foundation, which in turn is "funded entirely by the Hungarian government"
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Orbán's government implemented a flat tax on personal income set at 16%
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Hatvanpuszta, a historic estate once part of Archduke Joseph's Alcsút estate, was purchased in 2011 by a company owned by Viktor Orbán's father, Győző Orbán.
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By a company owned by Viktor Orbán's father, Győző Orbán
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Orbán's government drafted a new constitution behind closed doors, debated it for only nine days in the parliament, and passed it on a party line
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Orbán's government enacted a series of constitutional and institutional changes, including the 2013 amendments to the Constitution of Hungary, reforms to the judiciary affecting the administration of courts, and the crea
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And then in 2014, 2018, and 2022, winning supermajorities in all four elections
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Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014).
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Orbán has led initiatives and laws to limit LGBT+ rights
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Hungary (2010–2026).
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Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (2006–2010).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great presented by Juliusz Janusz in Budapest (2004).
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Awarded St. Stephen Prize (2002).
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Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (2002–2006).
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Awarded Franz Josef Strauss Award presented by Alfred Bayer in Munich (2001).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit (2001).
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And the ratio of the national debt decreased to 54% of GDP
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Opposition parties MSZP and SZDSZ and the left-wing press presented Orbán's comment that "there's life outside the EU" as proof of his anti-Europeanism and sympathies with the radical right
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For passing the "status law", which addressed the situation of approximately three million members of ethnic Hungarian minorities in neighbouring Romania, Slovakia, Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, and Ukraine
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Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1998–2002).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Hungary (1998–2002).
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Orbán formed a coalition with the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) and the Independent Smallholders' Party (FKGP)
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Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1994–1998).
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Career landmark: party leader (1993–2000).
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Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1990–1994).
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And led Fidesz's parliamentary group until 1993
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Studied at Pembroke College (1989–1990).
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Orbán lived in Szolnok for two years, commuting to his job in Budapest as a sociologist at the Management Training Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food
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During the third pastoral visit of John Paul II
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Studied at Eötvös Loránd University, Juris Doctor (1981–1987).
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Orbán married jurist Anikó Lévai in 1986; they have five children.
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Orbán submitted his master's thesis on the Polish Solidarity movement, based on interviews with its leaders
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By István Stumpf and modeled on English universities—for law students from outside the capital
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Orbán went to study law at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest
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Orbán completed his military service alongside Lajos Simicska, whom he had befriended in high school
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Studied at Teleki Blanka high school and junior high school (1977–1981).
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The family moved to Székesfehérvár, where Orbán had secured a place at the prestigious Blanka Teleki school
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The family resettled to neighboring Felcsút, where Orbán's father headed the machinery department at the local farm collective
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Born 1963-05-31.
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Questioning the rationale of blaming Ukraine for the war
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Awarded Dostyk Order of grade I.
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Awarded Hungarian Order of Merit.
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Awarded Royal Order of Cambodia.
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary.
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Awarded HazteOir.org Prize.
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Awarded Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.
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Awarded Order of Glory and Honor.
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Awarded Order of St. Gregory the Great.
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Awarded Order of the Republika Srpska.
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Played for Budapesti EAC.
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