Reuters —
Hungary’s main opposition Fidesz party re-elected former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as its leader on Saturday for another year despite the party’s loss of power in an April 12 election to the center-right Tisza party.
Nationalist Orban, 62, provided inspiration for right-wing conservatives across Europe and the United States as the mastermind of what he called an “illiberal” model of democracy.
Orban’s political future came into question after Fidesz’s defeat and he had faced pressure from some erstwhile loyalists to bow out of politics, the first such open criticism since he swept to power in 2010.
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