Viktor Orbán

Viktor Orbán appears in roughly 3 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are down 4.0% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -3.93 — negative.

Viktor Mihály Orbán is a Hungarian lawyer and politician who served as the prime minister of Hungary from 1998 to 2002 and from 2010 to 2026. He has also been the president of Fidesz, which has been variously characterised as a Christian nationalist, illiberal, and far-right political party. He has served as its president since 2003, and previously from 1993 to 2000.

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Also covered as: Orban · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
3
mentioning this entity
Week over week
-4.0%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-3.93
negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Viktor Orbán mentions per day: 91 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Viktor Orbán coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -3.93 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Viktor Orbán: 89 days, latest 1181.00 on 2026-08-180.0025005000May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).