Lőrinc Mészáros

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Lőrinc Mészáros (born 24 February 1966) is a Hungarian billionaire businessman and former politician who was mayor of the village of Felcsút from 2011 to 2018. With an estimated wealth of 1,749 billion forints (US$5.8 billion) as of 2025, he is the richest person in Hungary. Several media outlets refer to him as an "oligarch". Due to the perception that he owes his extreme wealth to his close ties to Fidesz and its leader Viktor Orbán, with whom he was childhood friends, Mészáros is one of the most controversial subjects of contemporary Hungarian social and political discourse. Since the 2010 Hungarian parliamentary election, in which Fidesz won a parliamentary supermajority sparking the Orbán era, Mészáros's wealth doubled annually and is regularly identified as Orbán's strawman. Mészáros acknowledged the significance of his relationship with Orbán, saying in 2017 that "[his] fortune is thanks to three factors: God, luck, and Viktor Orbán."

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