Fidesz –Hungarian Civic Alliance is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Hungary led by Viktor Orbán.
The Constitutional Court of Hungary is a special court of Hungary,making judicial review of the acts of the Parliament of Hungary. The official seat of the Constitutional Court is Budapest. Until 2012 the seat was Esztergom.
Viktor Mihály Orbán is a Hungarian lawyer and politician who has been Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010,previously holding the office from 1998 to 2002. He has led the Fidesz political party since 1993,with a break between 2000 and 2003.
Klára Dobrev is a Hungarian left-wing politician who served as Vice-President of the European Parliament between July 2019 and January 2022.
János Áder is a Hungarian politician and lawyer who served as President of Hungary from 2012 to 2022. He is a long-time politician of the right-wing Fidesz. As a representative of his party,he took part in the Hungarian Round Table Talks during the end of communism in Hungary in 1989. He was a member of the National Assembly of Hungary from 1990 to 2009 and served as its speaker from 1998 to 2002. He temporarily presided the Fidesz between 2002 and 2003. He served as leader of the Fidesz parliamentary group between 2002 and 2006.
The second government of Viktor Orbán or the Government of National Cooperation was the Government of Hungary from 29 May 2010 to 6 June 2014. Orbán formed his second cabinet after his party,Fidesz won the outright majority in the first round on April 11,with the Fidesz-KDNP alliance winning 206 seats,including 119 individual seats. In the final result,they won 263 seats,of which 173 are individual seats. Fidesz held 227 of these seats,giving it an outright majority in the National Assembly by itself.
Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 6 April 2014. This parliamentary election was the 7th since the 1990 first multi-party election. The result was a victory for the Fidesz–KDNP alliance,preserving its two-thirds majority,with Viktor Orbán remaining Prime Minister. It was the first election under the new Constitution of Hungary which came into force on 1 January 2012. The new electoral law also entered into force that day. For the first time since Hungary's transition to democracy,the election had a single round. The voters elected 199 MPs instead of the previous 386 lawmakers.
The third government of Viktor Orbán was the Government of Hungary between 6 June 2014 and 18 May 2018. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán formed his third cabinet after his party-alliance,Fidesz and its coalition partner,Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) altogether won a qualified majority in the 2014 parliamentary election.
An indirect presidential election was held in Hungary on 13 March 2017. János Áder was elected President of Hungary for a second term.
Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 3 April 2022 to elect the National Assembly,coinciding with a referendum. Hungary's incumbent prime minister Viktor Orbán won re-election to a fourth term. Addressing his supporters after the partial results showed Fidesz leading by a wide margin,Orbán said:"We won a victory so big that you can see it from the moon,and you can certainly see it from Brussels." Opposition leader Péter Márki-Zay admitted defeat shortly after Orbán's speech. Reuters described it as a "crushing victory".
The following lists events that happened during 2018 in Hungary.
Fidesz–KDNP Party Alliance,formerly also known as the Alliance of Hungarian Solidarity,is a right-wing national conservative political alliance of two political parties in Hungary,the Fidesz –Hungarian Civic Alliance (Fidesz) and the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP). The two parties jointly contested every national election since the 2006 parliamentary election. The Fidesz–KDNP party alliance has governed Hungary since 2010,altogether obtaining a supermajority in each of the 2010,2014,2018,and 2022 national elections.
Katalin Éva VeresnéNovák is a Hungarian politician who served as president of Hungary from 2022 to 2024. Elected at the age of 44,she was the first woman and youngest person ever to hold the post. Prior to her presidency,she had been a member of the National Assembly for Fidesz from 2018 to 2022,during which time she had also served as Minister for Family Affairs in the fourth Orbán government,from 2020 to 2021.
O1G is a meme that became a political symbol of the public protests against the government leadership of Viktor Orbán of Hungary. O1G is an acronym of the country-wide popular term Orbán egy geci,which roughly translates to Orbán is a motherfucker in English,with egy meaning both one,as well as the article a. The word geci is a vulgar term for semen,widely used in slang to describe an especially unpleasant person. The abbreviation has become a communication tool in international politics,after Guy Verhofstadt,the leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group of European Parliament,used the #O1G hashtag in a Twitter message supporting the Hungarian anti-government demonstrations.
Hungarian Spectrum was a daily blog from 2007 to 2021,covering current political and social developments in Hungary. Created in 2007 by historian Eva S. Balogh,it came to an end with her death,on November 30,2021.
The following lists events in the year 2020 in Hungary.
The Hungarian conservative party Fidesz has been accused of exhibiting anti-democratic and authoritarian tendencies since their return to leading the Hungarian government in 2010 under the leadership of Viktor Orbán in his second premiership. The Fidesz-led government has been accused of severely restricting media freedom,undermining the independence of the courts,subjugating and politicising independent and non-governmental institutions,surveilling political opponents,engaging in electoral engineering,and assailing critical NGOs. The Fidesz-led government has been accused of engaging in cronyism and corruption. Fidesz has been accused of antisemitism,and the Fidesz-led government has been accused of passing legislation that violates the rights of LGBT persons. Due to its controversial actions,Fidesz and its government have come in conflict with the EU on multiple occasions.
Maciej Kisilowski is a Polish academic. He is associate professor in law and strategy at Central European University as well as the faculty director of CEU Executive MBA program. He is an expert on public-sector strategy as well as nonmarket strategy of businesses.
Freedom of religion is recognized as a legal right in Hungary. The Fundamental Law of Hungary establishes the country as being founded on Christian values but guarantees the right to freedom of religion and freedom from religious discrimination. The history of religious freedom in Hungary has varied,with freedom of religion first recognized in 1919 before being restricted by Communist rule in the mid-20th century. Religious rights were restored following the end of Communism in Hungary,but the government under Viktor Orbán has been criticized for its restriction of religious freedoms.
Events in the year 2024 in Hungary.
