In 2013 he wrote a public letter to the Prime Minister Robert Fico, stating that the school pays €400 monthly for likely bogus "external legal services".
Žarnay together with an MP Ján Mičovský filed a lawsuit against the school for wasteful and fraudulent use of public funds.
[6] The comptroller of Košice regional administration estimates that over the course of contract being in effect, the school paid a total of €12,000 without to a law firm without apparently receiving any services in return.
[12][dead link] Žarnay successfully ran in the 2016 Slovak parliamentary election also on the Ordinary People and Independent Personalities list.
In 2017 he joined Miroslav Beblavý, Jozef Mihál, Katarína Macháčková, Zuzana Zimenová, Simona Petrík and Viera Dubačová ti start a new party called Democrats.