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The politics of Hungary takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic. The prime minister is the head of government of a pluriform multi-party system , while the president is the head of state and holds a largely ceremonial position.
After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was suppressed by Soviet forces, Hungary remained a communist country. As the Soviet Union weakened at the end of the 1980s, the Eastern Bloc disintegrated. The events in Hungary were part of the Revolutions of 1989, known in Hungarian as the Rendszerváltás (lit. ' system change ' or ' change of regime ').
The Government of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország Kormánya) exercises executive power in Hungary. [1] It is led by the Prime Minister , and is composed of various ministers. [ 2 ] It is the principal organ of public administration.
BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary summoned the U.S. ambassador to protest over remarks by President Joe Biden at a campaign stop saying Prime Minister Viktor Orban was seeking dictatorship, Foreign ...
The head of a Hungarian anti-corruption office tasked with stamping out fraud in the spending of European Union funds denied charges of misappropriation and abuse of power on Friday after ...
George Soros's Open Society Foundations will wait until the Hungarian government's planned law on non-government organizations is passed before it decides whether or not to leave the country, an ...
On Freedom House's annual report, Hungary's democracy rating dropped for ten consecutive years. [28] Its classification was downgraded from "democracy" to "transitional or hybrid regime" in 2020; Hungary was also the first EU member state to be labeled "partially free" (in 2019). The organization's 2020 report states that "Orbán's government ...
In a tweet that has now been followed by more than 100 tweeters, Anne Applebaum says she’s “looking forward to the justifications” for the Hungarian government’s state of emergency law ...