As of 2021, Viktor Orbán has been the Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010 and the leader of far-right party Fidesz since 1993. During his first premiership, from 1998 to 2002, he supported democratic rights and norms. But since his return to power, he has governed in an increasingly authoritarian style, changing election laws and replacing independent regulators and judges with loyalists in order to lock in his party’s legal advantages.