{"id":285475,"date":"2026-07-22T13:43:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=285475"},"modified":"2026-07-22T14:26:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:26:45","slug":"hungarys-viktor-orban-calls-on-supporters-to-stand-up-against-new-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/285475\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orban calls on supporters to stand up against new government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hungary’s former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who was ousted in an election in April, has urged his supporters to ​restore democracy in the country which he said had been crushed by ‌the new government, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Orban made his first strong political statements since his landslide election defeat late on Tuesday on Facebook, issuing a “Statement of Resistance” shortly after his Fidesz party said prosecutors had raided offices housing ​its internet servers.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors told Reuters in an emailed response that the action was ​linked to an investigation into “misappropriation and other criminal offences” at the ⁠National Culture Fund (NKA) under Orban’s government.<\/p>\n

Orban said that Hungary had “ceased to be a democratic ​state” after the new government of Prime Minister Peter Magyar passed<\/a> a constitutional amendment ​ending the mandate of the president and the head of the constitutional court.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hungary’s former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who was ousted in an election in April, has urged his supporters to ​restore democracy in the country which he said had been crushed by ‌the new government, Reuters writes. Orban made his first strong political statements since his landslide election defeat late on Tuesday on Facebook, issuing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":285450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285476,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285475\/revisions\/285476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}