Laszlo Toroczkai (10 March 1978-) was the Mayor of Asotthalom, Hungary from 15 December 2013. Toroczkai was a member of the fascist Jobbik party, and he was responsible for banning Islam and same-sex marriages in his town on 25 November 2016. In 2018, after being expelled from Jobbik for his extremist views, he founded the Our Homeland Movement.
Biography[]
Laszlo Toroczkai was born in Szeged, Hungary on 10 March 1978, and he became a far-right activist. He helped in founding a nationalist youth organization, and he was banned from Serbia in 2004 for getting into a fight and from Slovakia in 2006 for staging a fascist demonstration in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs building. In 2010, he became a representative of Csongrad County, and he was elected Mayor of Asotthalom in 2013 as a Jobbik politician. On 25 November 2016, he banned the open expression of Islam (including the construction of mosques or wearing headscarves) and same-sex marriages in his town, but the law was found unconstitutional in April 2017 and shot down. In June 2018, Toroczkai negotiated with Afrikaner farmers in an attempt to persuade them to move to Asotthalom. In 2018, Toroczkai was expelled from Jobbik after the party decided to moderate its views to improve its electability, leading to Toroczkai and the far-right faction of Jobbik forming the Our Homeland Movement.