Viktor Orban
Viktor Orban has been the Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010.[1]
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.[1]
He became chairman of Fidesz in 1993.[1]
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 award granted by the Hanns Seidel Foundation. In 2002, he became vice-chairman of the European People's Party.[1]
He became of Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Union in 2003.[1]
External resources
- Hungary's Orban defies foreign criticism over laws, BBC News, 14 January 2013.
