Gáspár Orbán, son of Hungary's outgoing prime minister, discharged from military

Published on 22/04/2026 - 20:01 GMT+2

According to Kontroll, the lad of the outgoing Prime Minister,

Gáspár Orbán, the lad of Hungary's outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been discharged from the Hungarian Defence Forces, section media report.

Sources astatine 444.hu confirmed that Orbán, who held the fertile of captain, submitted his demobilsation petition earlier the parliamentary elections connected 12 April which saw his father's Fidesz enactment trounced by the absorption successful a landslide.

Gáspár Orbán was calved successful 1992 studied instrumentality and archetypal became a footballer, playing arsenic a midfielder for Videoton FC Fehérvár and Puskás Akadémia FC earlier founding a charismatic Christian younker question called Felház.

He was sworn into the Hungarian Defence Forces aft taking his oath successful 2019 and successful 2020 was sent connected a nine-month grooming people astatine the elite Royal Military Academy Sandhurst successful the UK.

His Hungarian adjacent connected that course, Captain Szilveszter Pálinkás, told the telex quality tract that helium had been called by the Chief of General Staff and told, "I person to provender him, h2o him, marque definite helium completes this academy, due to the fact that if helium doesn't, we'll suffer our jobs."

A Hungarian subject ngo to Chad, with the purpose of stemming migrant flows to Europe, was reportedly devised by Orbán who allegedly told a workfellow astatine Sandhurst that helium had a “divine inspiration” to assistance African Christians.

In 2024, Hungary announced it was sending astir 200 troops to Chad to supply grooming and enactment counter-terrorism operations.

That ngo raised eyebrows successful Hungary, partially due to the fact that the state had nary substantive relations with Chad earlier and the promised of $200 cardinal (€170 million) successful assistance was an deemed excessive pledge from 1 of Europe’s poorer countries.

Captain Pálinkás said that the subject ngo to Chad had been planned by Gáspár Orbán, past a lieutenant-general, and that helium expected losses of beingness of astir 50%.

That assertion was denied by some Orbán and Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky who said that the Chad ngo did not happen, contempt it being approved successful parliament.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán besides said that the allegations were mendacious arsenic lieutenants successful the Hungarian Defence Forces could not program missions.