Viktor Orbán to make annual state of the nation address on 28 February
8 February 2016
Confirming reports by news portal Magyar Idők, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief Bertalan Havasi has told Hungarian news agency MTI that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will make his annual state of the nation address on 28 February at the Royal Castle Garden Bazaar in Budapest.
Every year since 1999 the Prime Minister and president of Fidesz has made a speech assessing the events of the previous twelve months; this will be his eighteenth state of the nation address.
Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI
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