The Human Chain was founded by 52 environmentalist and civil activists under the initiative of writer and Védegylet founder András Lányi on 8 October 2005.

The party elected a 5-member collective leadership (András Lányi, agrarian engineer Éva Ács, architect Attila Ertsey, economist Péter Kajner and essayist István Orosz).

[1] Since its foundation, the Human Chain is closely linked to the Kishantos Rural Development Center which had established an ecological model farm in the 1990s in Hantos, Fejér County.

The party accepted its programme there on 10 December 2005, representing environmental policy, direct democracy and the right to self-determination of communities.

He called attention to abuses among state land lease tenders, which were favored for the Fidesz close-ally entrepreneurs and "oligarchs", according to him.