{"id":50240,"date":"2026-04-09T08:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/who-is-viktor-orban-hungarian-pm-fighting-to-cling-to-power-after-16-years\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:16:19","slug":"who-is-viktor-orban-hungarian-pm-fighting-to-cling-to-power-after-16-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/who-is-viktor-orban-hungarian-pm-fighting-to-cling-to-power-after-16-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Viktor Orban, Hungarian PM fighting to cling to power after 16 years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">He is considered Vladimir Putin&#8217;s strongest partner in the EU, and he has been endorsed by US President Donald Trump in his bid for a fifth consecutive term in office. Vice-President JD Vance even visited Budapest days before the election, intervening in the campaign to appeal to voters to &#8220;stand with Viktor Orb\u00e1n, because he stands for you&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cd6l3ywpwg2o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is considered Vladimir Putin&#8217;s strongest partner in the EU, and he has been endorsed by US President Donald Trump in his bid for a fifth consecutive term in office. Vice-President JD Vance even visited Budapest days before the election, intervening in the campaign to appeal to voters to &#8220;stand with Viktor Orb\u00e1n, because he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50242,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50240\/revisions\/50242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}