Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Viktor Orbán (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈorbaːn ˈviktor]; born 31 May 1963) is a Hungarian jurist and politician who has been Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010 and the president of the national conservative ruling party Fidesz from 1993 to 2000 and since 2003. Previously he also served as Prime Minister from 1998 to 2002.Having earned a law degree, Orbán entered politics in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989 as a key figure of the radical student movement. He became a nationally known politician after his powerful speech at the reburial of Imre Nagy and other '56 martyrs on 16 June 1989. Following the transition to democracy in 1990, he was elected to the National Assembly for the first time and functioned as leader of his party's parliamentary caucus until 1994. Under his party leadership, Fidesz gradually transformed itself from a \"radical liberal force\" into a center-right people's party by 1994. Fidesz gained power at first in 1998, with electing Orbán as Prime Minister, who governed Hungary in a right-wing coalition government. During his appointment, he became the country's second youngest premier ever. Orbán narrowly lost the 2002 national election to the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), and became Leader of the Opposition. The Fidesz lost the 2006 election too; despite two defeats in a row, Orbán was able to maintain the position of party president.After eight years in opposition, Fidesz won two-thirds majority of seats in the 2010 parliamentary election, enough to form a government on its own with its sister party, Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP), with Orbán as Prime Minister. At the 2014 parliamentary election, Orbán won again a landslide victory with 44.87% of the vote, forming his third government with supermajority. After a 2015 by-election, the party lost its two-thirds supermajority needed for changing the Constitution, while still retaining a simple majority.Orbán was a vice chairman in the Liberal International from 1992 to 2000, later a Vice President in the European People's Party from 2002 to 2012. His second term as head of government was widely criticized by various institutions at several occasions, particulary during the adoption of the new constitution in 2011. Orbán often described as \"strongman\" of Hungary or Europe by domestic and international media. In a 2014 speech, according to the critics, Orbán interpreted his views about as an advocate of the \"illiberal democracy\". He stated, however, this does not reject the values of the liberal democracy, but does not adopt it as a central element of state organisation."@en }
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- Viktor_Orbán abstract "Viktor Orbán (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈorbaːn ˈviktor]; born 31 May 1963) is a Hungarian jurist and politician who has been Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010 and the president of the national conservative ruling party Fidesz from 1993 to 2000 and since 2003. Previously he also served as Prime Minister from 1998 to 2002.Having earned a law degree, Orbán entered politics in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989 as a key figure of the radical student movement. He became a nationally known politician after his powerful speech at the reburial of Imre Nagy and other '56 martyrs on 16 June 1989. Following the transition to democracy in 1990, he was elected to the National Assembly for the first time and functioned as leader of his party's parliamentary caucus until 1994. Under his party leadership, Fidesz gradually transformed itself from a \"radical liberal force\" into a center-right people's party by 1994. Fidesz gained power at first in 1998, with electing Orbán as Prime Minister, who governed Hungary in a right-wing coalition government. During his appointment, he became the country's second youngest premier ever. Orbán narrowly lost the 2002 national election to the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), and became Leader of the Opposition. The Fidesz lost the 2006 election too; despite two defeats in a row, Orbán was able to maintain the position of party president.After eight years in opposition, Fidesz won two-thirds majority of seats in the 2010 parliamentary election, enough to form a government on its own with its sister party, Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP), with Orbán as Prime Minister. At the 2014 parliamentary election, Orbán won again a landslide victory with 44.87% of the vote, forming his third government with supermajority. After a 2015 by-election, the party lost its two-thirds supermajority needed for changing the Constitution, while still retaining a simple majority.Orbán was a vice chairman in the Liberal International from 1992 to 2000, later a Vice President in the European People's Party from 2002 to 2012. His second term as head of government was widely criticized by various institutions at several occasions, particulary during the adoption of the new constitution in 2011. Orbán often described as \"strongman\" of Hungary or Europe by domestic and international media. In a 2014 speech, according to the critics, Orbán interpreted his views about as an advocate of the \"illiberal democracy\". He stated, however, this does not reject the values of the liberal democracy, but does not adopt it as a central element of state organisation.".