Mar 31, 2022 · Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party face their first closely-contested election on April 3 after three consecutive landslide victories since 2010.

Orbán was first elected to the National Assembly in 1990 and led Fidesz's parliamentary group until 1993. During his first term as prime minister and head of the conservative coalition government, from 1998 to 2002, inflation and the fiscal deficit shrank, and Hungary joined NATO.

Feb 13, 2024 · Viktor Orban accused George Soros's civil society groups of "trying secretly and with foreign money to influence Hungarian politics", and the Soros-founded Central European University, set...

May 21, 2020 · One of its leaders was Viktor Orban, who earned national recognition for a brave speech in June 1989 urging the Soviet troops still present in the country to go home.

Jan 27, 2025 · Viktor Orban, prime minister of Hungary (1998–2002; 2010– ), the first post-Cold War head of government in eastern and central Europe who had not been a member of a Soviet-era communist regime. Over time, his rhetoric became nationalistic and anti-immigrant and his rule increasingly autocratic.

Jan 16, 2025 · Viktor Orbán’s kleptocratic hybrid regime has hit choppy waters, and he and his country may be nearing a moment of truth. Orbán’s family and closest allies are so deeply implicated in crimes and corruption that were Fidesz ever to lose an election, they would almost certainly face a legal reckoning.

Dec 5, 2024 · In the 2024 European Parliament elections, Orbán and the Fidesz party faced its largest challenge in recent years. Though it received a plurality of votes, Fidesz lost two seats to challengers in a demonstration of failing trust in Viktor Orbán and his party.

Mar 31, 2022 · Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party face their first closely-contested election on April 3 after three consecutive landslide victories since 2010.

Jan 29, 2020 · Over his 10 years in power, Viktor Orban has sought to stifle dissent and silence all opposition to his policies, as exemplified by his latest move to bring theaters under government control.

Orbán has been the leader of the Fidesz political party since 1993, with a brief interruption from 2000 to 2003. The Treaty of Trianon, signed in 1920, redrew the borders of Hungary, resulting in significant territorial losses. Viktor Orbán's father, Győző Orbán, was born in 1940.