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At its inception, Fidesz was a liberal, pro-Western youth movement that openly challenged the Hungarian Young Communist League.

To maintain its "young" identity, the party initially had an upper age limit of 35 for its members.

On , Orbán and 36 other university students—mostly from the prestigious Bibó István Law College in Budapest—founded Fidesz (Alliance of Young Democrats).