Original sentence: After Fidesz won a plurality of seats in the 1998 election, Orbán was appointed Prime Minister for the first time.After the transition to democracy in 1990, he was elected to the National Assembly and served as the leader of Fidesz's parliamentary caucus until 1993.As a result of Orbán's political conduct, Fidesz was suspended from the European People's Party from March 2019 until March 2021, when Fidesz left the EPP after its new statute strengthened the commitment of constituent parties to respect the principle of rule of law.Fidesz narrowly lost the 2002 and 2006 elections to the Socialist Party, with Orbán spending this period as Leader of the Opposition.Fidesz retained its supermajority in the 2014 and 2018 elections.He became head of the reformist student movement the Alliance of Young Democrats (), which would eventually become the Fidesz party.He briefly studied political science at Oxford, before entering politics in the wake of the Autumn of Nations.He has also been President of Fidesz, a national conservative political party, since 1993, with a brief break between 2000 and 2003.He supervises communications, long-term planning, daily operations, policy direction, and selection of candidates.Orbán became nationally known after giving an address at the 1989 reburial of Imre Nagy and other martyrs of the 1956 revolution, in which he openly demanded that Soviet troops withdraw from the country.Orbán formed a coalition with the Christian Democrats, giving him a supermajority in the National Assembly, which he used to introduce major constitutional and legislative reforms.Orbán studied law at Eötvös Loránd University, graduating in 1987.Orbán's populism, social-national conservatism, soft Euroscepticism and advocacy of what he describes as an "illiberal state" have attracted significant European and international attention and criticism.The fall in popularity of the Socialists, exacerbated by Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány's "Őszöd speech", helped Orbán lead Fidesz to a landslide victory in 2010.Under his control it became the most centralized, most homogeneous and most disciplined party in Hungarian history.Under his leadership, Fidesz shifted away from its original centre-right, classical liberal, pro-European integration platform toward more right-wing national conservatism.Under his leadership, Hungary has experienced democratic backsliding, shifting towards authoritarianism
Edited sentence: After studying law and political science at Eötvös Loránd University and, briefly, the University of Oxford, Orbán entered Hungarian politics in the wake of the Autumn of Nations.During his first premiership (1998–2002), he led a coalition government with the Hungarian Democratic Forum.From 2002 to 2010, Orbán led the official opposition to several Hungarian Socialist Party-led governments, which were affected by a series of serious political crises.He has led Fidesz, a national conservative political party, since 1993, with a brief break between 2000 and 2003.He led the reformist student movement, the Alliance of Young Democrats (), the nascent Fidesz.In an alliance with the Christian Democrats, Fidesz subsequently won supermajorities in the 2010, 2014, and 2018 elections, which allowed Orbán to spearhead major constitutional and legislative reforms in 2013.Orbán achieved national recognition after giving an address at the 1989 reburial of Imre Nagy and other martyrs of the 1956 revolution, in which he openly demanded that Soviet troops withdraw from the country, and, after the Hungarian transition to democracy one year later, was elected to the National Assembly.Orbán is often accused of causing democratic backsliding in Hungary, and his Christian democracy, social conservatism, national conservatism, soft Euroscepticism and advocacy of what he describes as "illiberal democracy" have attracted significant international attention and criticism.Orbán led the Fidesz parliamentary caucus until 1993, during which time the party shifted from its original centre-right, classical liberal, pro-European platform toward right-wing national conservatism