György Budaházy (born 3 June 1969) is a Hungarian

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and

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Education and early life

Budaházy was born in

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on 3 June 1969. His early years were spent in the

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housing estate. After graduating from the Antal Budai Nagy high school ( hu, Budai Nagy Antal Gimnázium), he studied

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at the

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. He graduated in 1992, but did not work as an engineer; instead, he studied at the Budapest Business School. Around that time, he joined the center-right Hungarian Democratic Forum political party.

Public life

He founded in 2006, together with László Toroczkai the Hunnia organization. This organization rejects both the accession of Hungary to the

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in 2004 and the

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, and calls for a Greater Hungary with borders as they were before 1920. Budaházy was known with his new organization by numerous acts of violence with Molotov cocktails. Budaházy was imprisoned in custody for various militant offenses since 2009. Budaházy was pardoned in April 2023 by the Hungarian president,

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Family

In 1997, he married Bernadett Trencsányi, with whom he has three children (born 1999, 2001 and 2006). His younger sister Edda Budaházy is a well-known right-wing activist, too.

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1969 births Hungarian Democratic Forum politicians Hungarian nationalists {{Hungarian far right Living people

Education and early life

Public life

Family

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