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Some opponents of the changes staged a protest at Fidesz party headquarters last week.
WSJ: Hungary Amends Laws, in Snub to EU, U.S.
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He served as an MEP for the ruling right-wing Fidesz party before being appointed president in the summer of 2010.
ECONOMIST: Hungarian politics
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Hungary's parliament has adopted a package of constitutional changes proposed by the ruling Fidesz party which critics say undermine democracy.
BBC: Hungary defies critics over change to constitution
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Mr Orban has been able to push through changes because of the two-thirds majority his Fidesz party and its allies enjoy in parliament, following the 2010 election.
BBC: Hungary's Orban defies foreign criticism over laws
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In the 2010 election, a conservative coalition consisting of Mr Orban's Fidesz party and the Christian Democratic People's Party won two-thirds of the seats in parliament, and this powerful majority has made it possible for the governing parties to push through several pieces of controversial legislation.
BBC: Q&A: Hungary's controversial constitutional changes
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During his first government, between 1998 and 2002, Orban's Fidesz party designated an annual Holocaust memorial day and after returning to power in 2010 banned uniformed groups like the Jobbik-affiliated Hungarian Guard, whose marches in Budapest and countryside villages were meant to intimidate Jews and Hungary's large Roma minority.
NPR: Hungary's Prime Minister Denounces Anti-Semitism
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His party, Fidesz, insists that the constitutional changes conform with Hungary's legal responsibilities as an EU member.
BBC: Hungary backtracks in row with EU over constitution
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The leader of Fidesz, Hungary's centre-right party, won a stunning two-thirds majority in parliament on April 25th, taking 263 of the 386 seats.
ECONOMIST: Hungary's new government
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Fidesz's electoral list included a second party, the Hungarian Democratic Forum.
ECONOMIST: Hungary's election: Orban loses, but only just | The
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Viktor Orban, who founded Fidesz, Hungary's centre-right opposition party, 22 years ago in March 1988, hopes for a double celebration after this weekend's election.
ECONOMIST: A likely win for Fidesz that some hope may halt the far-right