János Volner

Early life

János Volner was born on 28 September 1969, in Budapest, Hungary. After completing graduation in 1988, he had worked in the Police department and also as a district attorney. He was involved in the field of economics for around 17 years.

On 19 September 2019 he pronounced that he is leaving Our Homeland. A year later, in September 2020, he formed a new party, named Volner Party. Since then he was mainly voting the same way as the ruling Fidesz party. In November 2020, Fidesz proposed a change to the electoral vote which would require nominating parties to present a minimum of 50 candidates (out of the 106 districts) in order to be allowed a place on the national ballot. This was viewed as a measure against small parties without nation-wide representation. To everyone's surprise, János Volner proposed an amendment, requiring a minimum of 71 candidates. This was a strange proposal because the Volner Party itself only had 10 members and so they basically eliminated their own chances of participating. The other opposition parties reacted by forming a broad alliance, the United for Hungary.

On 22 January 2022 János Volner announced that his party would not participate in the 2022 election. Volner, consequently, lost his parliamentary mandate after twelve years. On 8 May 2022, he announced, that his party would be renamed the Huxit Party.