Second premiership of Viktor Orbán

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The Orbán era (Hungarian: Orbán-korszak) or Orbán system (Hungarian: Orbán-rendszer) was the second period in the history of Hungary's modern Third Republic during which Viktor Orbán served as Prime Minister of Hungary. From 2010 to 2026, Orbán's Fidesz party enjoyed a supermajority in the National Assembly in a permanent coalition with the Christian Democrats (KDNP). This supermajority allowed the Fidesz–KDNP alliance to pass constitutional amendments without seeking support from other parliamentary parties. Over these sixteen years, Orbán's and Fidesz's ideology moved steadily to the right, shifting the once-conservative-liberal, pro-European party toward Euroscepticism, right-wing populism, national conservatism, self-professed illiberalism, and Christian nationalism. Fidesz used its parliamentary supermajority to enact wide-ranging constitutional and institutional changes that many observers characterized as constructing a hybrid regime that blended democracy with authoritarianism....

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