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Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance, commonly known as Fidesz, is a Christian nationalist political party in Hungary led by Viktor Orbán. Classified as far-right on the political spectrum, the party closely adheres to the beliefs and doctrines of the Catholic Church in Hungary, which has a close relationship with the party and receives significant amounts of money from the Fidesz–KDNP government. The party has been described as authoritarian, and has increasingly identified itself as illiberal.
It was formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young Democrats (Fiatal Demokraták Szövetsége, with the acronym FIDESZ) as a centre-left and liberal activist movement that opposed the Hungarian People's Republic, which was ruled by a Marxist–Leninist government. It was registered as a political party in 1990, with Orbán as its leader. It entered the National Assembly following the 1990 Hungarian parliamentary election. Following the 1998 Hungarian parliamentary election, it successfully formed a centre-right and conservative government. It adopted nationalism in the early 2000s but its popularity declined due to corruption scandals. It was in opposition between 2002 and 2010, and in 2006 it formed an electoral alliance with the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP).
Fidesz won a supermajority in the 2010 Hungarian parliamentary election, adopted national conservative and Christian nationalist policies, shifted further towards the right-wing, and became Eurosceptic. The 2011 adoption of a new Constitution of Hungary was highly controversial as it consolidated power with Fidesz. Having set Hungary on a path of democratic backsliding, its majority of seats remained after the 2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, and following the escalation of the 2015 European migrant crisis, Fidesz began using right-wing populist and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Between the 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election and the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election, it held a majority in the National Assembly with 135 seats. It also held the presidency of Hungary since 2010, endorsed the election of every president since 2000, and it enjoys majorities in all 19 county assemblies, while being in opposition in the General Assembly of Budapest. Fidesz was initially a member of the Liberal International until 2000, after which it joined the European People's Party. It remained a member until 2021, and since then it served with the Non-Inscrits group within the European Parliament. On 30 June 2024, alongside ANO 2011 and the Freedom Party of Austria, it created a new alliance named Patriots for Europe.
The party lost the 2026 Hungarian elections to the Tisza Party.
