After that he worked as a teacher for the Toldy Ferenc Grammar School.

He was a deputy chairman of the Committee of Education, Research, Youth and Sport between 1994 and 1998.

In July 2002 after it was exposed that his father, János Pokorni, worked for the Ministry of the Interior as a III/III agent, Pokorni resigned from his position at the party and also as leader of the parliamentary group.

Pokorni was elected as mayor of the XII District of Budapest (Hegyvidék) in 2006.

They have four children: Benedek Donát (1992), Ágoston Jakab (1996), Ábel Boldizsár (1999) and Barnabás Vince (2001).