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[[Viktor Orban]] has been the Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010.<ref name="CV">[http://www.kormany.hu/en/prime-minister-s-office/the-prime-minister Curriculum vitae of Viktor Orbán], Website of the Hungarian Government, accessed 18 March 2012.</ref>

Orban was a founding member of the Alliance of Young Democrats ([[Fidesz]]) in 1988. He was a delegate at the Opposition Roundtable a year later.<ref name="CV">[http://www.kormany.hu/en/prime-minister-s-office/the-prime-minister Curriculum vitae of Viktor Orbán], Website of the Hungarian Government, accessed 18 March 2012.</ref>

He became chairman of Fidesz in 1993.<ref name="CV">[http://www.kormany.hu/en/prime-minister-s-office/the-prime-minister Curriculum vitae of Viktor Orbán], Website of the Hungarian Government, accessed 18 March 2012.</ref>

Orban served his first term as Prime Minister from 1998 to 2002. In 2001, he received the Freedom Award of the [[American Enterprise Institute]] and the [[New Atlantic Initiative]], and the [[Franz Josef Strauss|Franz-Josef Strauß]] award granted by the [[Hanns Seidel Foundation]]. In 2002, he became vice-chairman of the [[European People's Party]].<ref name="CV">[http://www.kormany.hu/en/prime-minister-s-office/the-prime-minister Curriculum vitae of Viktor Orbán], Website of the Hungarian Government, accessed 18 March 2012.</ref>

He became of [[Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Union]] in 2003.<ref name="CV">[http://www.kormany.hu/en/prime-minister-s-office/the-prime-minister Curriculum vitae of Viktor Orbán], Website of the Hungarian Government, accessed 18 March 2012.</ref>

==External resources==
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21792644 Hungary's Orban defies foreign criticism over laws], BBC News, 14 January 2013.

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[[Category:Hungary|Orban, Viktor]]

Viktor Orban - Revision history

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