It has been proposed that

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withdraw from the

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(EU), which is sometimes referred to as Huxit, Huexit, Hunxit and Hunexit (all being

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politicians have tried to create a comparison between the EU and the former

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(USSR), seen as a past oppressor in the country. Furthermore,

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is a phenomenon present in Hungary. For all of this, it has been suggested that Hungary should leave the EU. In 2021, the Parliament of Hungary promulgated the so-called Hungarian anti-LGBT law, which aims to ban all content for children that may be considered as "promoting homosexuality" and which makes a relationship between the

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and pedophilia. This received a heavy negative response from other countries of the EU, with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte even suggesting Prime Minister of Hungary

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to leave the EU. Hungary is legally allowed to leave the EU according to

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of the

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. Therefore, the country could leave the union after the organization of a

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, for which it would be necessary to change the Constitution of Hungary with the support of two-thirds of the Hungarian parliament. Such a thing was proposed by the Hungarian politician

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, member of the party

Our Homeland Movement Our Homeland Movement (Hungarian language, Hungarian: ''Mi Hazánk Mozgalom,'' MHM) is a Hungarian Far-right politics, far-right political party founded by Ásotthalom mayor and former Jobbik Vice-President László Toroczkai and other Jobbik dis ...

. However, withdrawal from the EU is not popular among the Hungarian public. A 2016 poll revealed that 68% of Hungarians wanted to stay in the EU and that only 17% preferred to leave. In 2020, support for the EU was even higher, with 85% of polled Hungarians supporting the membership of the country in the union. On 8 May 2022,

János Volner János Volner (born 28 September 1969) is a far-right Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly from 2010 to 2022, as a politician of the Jobbik until 2018, then as non-partisan lawmaker. Between 2016 and 2018 he was the parliamentary ...

, former member of the political party Jobbik, announced that his own political party, the Volner Party, would be renamed to Huxit Party and adopt a Hungarian withdrawal from the EU as its main objective.

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