László Toroczkai

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László Toroczkai
Toroczkai in 2018
President of Our Homeland Movement
Assumed office
23 June 2018
Preceded byOffice established
Mayor of Ásotthalom
In office
15 December 2013 – 27 April 2022
Preceded byFerenc Petró
Succeeded byRenáta Papp
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
2 May 2022
Personal details
Born
László Tóth

(1978-03-10) 10 March 1978 (age 46)
Szeged, Hungary
Political partyMHM (2018–present)
Other political
affiliations		MIÉP (1996–2000)
HVIM (2001–2013)
Jobbik (2010–2018)
Spouse
Toroczkai Mihaela
​
​
(m. 2009; div. 2017)​
Children3
Alma materUniversity of Szeged
Profession
  • Politician
  • journalist
WebsiteLászló Toroczkai website

László Toroczkai (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian politician, journalist, leader of the Our Homeland Movement political party, and former mayor of Ásotthalom. He is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He is also a founding member of the HVIM youth organization, the Hunnia national radical movement, and former Vice President of Jobbik. Between 2002 and 2013 he served as editor-in-chief of the Magyar Jelen newspaper.

Family

Cluj; ancestors from his father's side were expelled from Sombor and Odžaci. As a fearful judge, one of his great-grandfathers, Gusztáv Tutsek [hu], had a major role in the aftermath of the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and was widely condemned for presiding over some of the notorious show trials. It was he who convicted Mária Wittner among others. Conservative right author Anna Tutsek, who was born in Cluj-Napoca, was also his relative. In the 1930s his grandfather, László Tóth, who was from Bačka, was a gendarme and a football player. Later on, during World War II, he served in the Royal Hungarian Army. He was deployed to recapture Bačka and Northern Transylvania and then participated in fights at the Eastern front
.

László Toroczkai has 3 children. He was twice married. His second wife is from Western Moldavia, Romania. They divorced in 2017.

Political career

Born in Szeged, Toroczkai studied communication at the University of Szeged. He defines himself as a national radical.

In 2004, Toroczkai was banned from Serbia after being involved in a scuffle with a group of

public television where he led the protesting crowd in Budapest from the Kossuth Square to the Liberty Square
.

In 2007, as a journalist, he wrote an article for Magyar Jelen, in which he claimed that a 1998 murder was not actually committed by the man convicted of the crime, but by Jewish businessmen for ritual purposes, thus creating an antisemitic blood libel.[1][2]

Mayor of Ásotthalom (2013–present)

Since 2013 he has been the mayor of Ásotthalom. He was elected as mayor in a by-election with 71.5% of the vote.[3] In the regularly scheduled election in 2014 he was re-elected unanimously.[4] He was re-elected with 68.42% of the vote in the 2019 local elections.[5]

In early 2015, he proposed to have a border fence built along the southern border of

Muslim call to prayer,[9] burqa, and public displays of same-sex affection.[8][9] He endorsed policies to ban the promotion of pro-LGBT rights advertisements and Islamic religious practices in Ásotthalom, arguing that homosexuality and Islam are threats posed to the Hungarian traditions.[10] In April 2017, after a lawsuit challenging the ban's legitimacy had been filled, the Constitutional Court struck it down, ruling that it violated human rights law as it aimed to " directly limit the freedom of speech, conscience and religion".[11]
However Toroczkai says that he respects all historical religions, including Islam, and he is fighting against mass migration and extreme liberalism, not against religions and traditions.[12][13]

In June 2018, Toroczkai discussed plans with

Afrikaner farmers to relocate to Ásotthalom.[14][15][16]

Party leader

László Toroczkai speaking at Corvin köz

Between 2010 and 2014, he was a local representative of

Csongrád County. He is the former vice president of the Jobbik party[17] and led its county list during the elections of 2010 and 2014.[18]

After the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Toroczkai was a contender for Jobbik's presidency, but he lost to his opponent Tamás Sneider, receiving 46.2% of the vote. He later told reporters he had formed a new platform and allowed party leaders time until June 23 to integrate its ideology and policies into the party's political programmes or risk a break-up of Jobbik.[19]

He said the platform had plans to return to the original goals pursued by Jobbik, including hating immigration, stopping the emigration of the Hungarian youth to the wealthier western part of the

EU, taking a tough line on Hungary's Roma minority, and supporting the ethnic Hungarian minorities in neighboring states.[19]

On 8 June 2018, Jobbik revoked Toroczkai's membership and expelled him from the party. In response, he established a new political movement which formed into a party called Our Homeland Movement with fellow former Jobbik MP Dóra Dúró.[20][21]

In 2022 parliamentary elections, Mi Hazank surpassed the threshold to enter parliament with 6% of the vote, winning 7 seats.

On 27 January 2024, Toroczkai called for Hungary to lay claim to Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast, which is home to a significant Hungarian minority, in the event of a Russian victory in the invasion of Ukraine and the loss of Ukrainian statehood.[22]

References

  1. ^ "Döbbenetes!". 24.hu (in Hungarian). 15 September 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Tiszaeszlár, újratöltve: vérváddal a traubis üzletember, az SZDSZ és az ortodox zsidók ellen". Szombat Online. 15 April 2024. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  3. Index.hu
    . 15 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  4. ^ "Evkjkv1". Archived from the original on 6 October 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  5. ^ "Ásotthalom települési választás eredményei" (in Hungarian). Nemzeti Választási Iroda. 13 October 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  6. ^ origo.hu - Kerítést építene a határon Toroczkai - Viktória Serdült - 23 January, 2015, 13:34
  7. ^ origo.hu - Toroczkai: Az illegális migráció ma a legnagyobb fenyegetés - Tibor Lengyel - June 9, 2015, 14:20
  8. ^ a b c d Borg, Matthew (7 February 2017). "Sindku f'raħal ċkejken jiddikjara "gwerra qaddisa kontra l-Islam"". newsbook (in Maltese). Malta. Archived from the original on 7 February 2017.
  9. ^ a b Benke, Erika (7 February 2017). "The village aiming to create a white utopia". BBC News. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  10. ^ Bulman, May (7 February 2017). "Hungarian mayor says Muslims and gay people not welcome in his village". The Independent. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  11. ^ Mortimer, Caroline (14 April 2017). "Hungarian court overturns village's ban on Islamic symbols and 'LGBT propaganda". The Independent. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  12. ^ https://visegradpost.com/en/2023/06/29/laszlo-toroczkai-orban-makes-massive-use-of-foreign-labour-in-hungary/
  13. ^ https://www.breizh-info.com/2023/06/09/221138/laszlo-toroczkai-orban-fait-massivement-appel-a-la-main-doeuvre-etrangere-en-hongrie-interview-exclusive/
  14. ^ Boer Delegation Visits Hungary, Project Nova Europa
  15. ^ First Boer Delegation Visits Hungarian Town, New Observer Online
  16. ^ Schaeffer, Carol (28 May 2017). "How Hungary Became A Haven For The Alt Right". The Atlantic. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  17. ^ "JOBBIK'S VICE PRESIDENT LÁSZLÓ TOROCZKAI ON THE REFERENDUM RESULT". Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  18. ^ "Elections in Csongrád County". valasztas.hu. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  19. ^ a b "Hardliners in Hungary's Jobbik demand return to far-right roots". Reuters. 22 May 2018.
  20. ^ "Brand New Far-Right Party Emerges from the Ashes of Jobbik". Hungary Today. 25 June 2018.
  21. ^ Kizárta Toroczkait a Jobbik – Index, 2018.06.08.
  22. ^ "Hungarian far-right leader calls for seizure of Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast if Russia wins war". The Kyiv Independent. 28 January 2024.

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