Hungary is a unitary parliamentary republic in Central Europe, its capital Budapest. The President serves as head of state while the Prime Minister heads the government, and the unicameral National Assembly holds legislative power.
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Signatory state, Treaty of Trianon, 1920.
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1. Freedom House: Hungary (Freedom in the World 2025)
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Since taking power in the 2010 elections, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Alliance of Young Democrats-Hungarian Civic Union (Fidesz) party has pushed through constitutional and legal changes that have allowed it to consolidate control over the country's independent institutions.
2. CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive): The World Factbook archive: Hungary
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25 December 1000 (crowning of King STEPHEN I, traditional founding date)
Politics of Hungary (Wikipedia)
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parliamentary representative democratic republic
Governed By: Peter Magyar Government, Executive branch section
Magyar became prime minister on 9 May 2026.
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Practices: Unitary State, Infobox: government_type
Unitary parliamentary republic
Practices: Parliamentary Democracy, Infobox: government_type
Unitary parliamentary republic
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