László Toroczkai

Since 2013 he has been the mayor of Ásotthalom. He was elected as mayor in a by-election with 71.5% of the vote.[2] In the regularly scheduled election in 2014 he was re-elected unanimously.[3] He was re-elected with 68.42% of the vote in the 2019 local elections.[4]

It was his idea early 2015 to have a border fence built along the southern border of Hungary, in order to stop illegal migration, which was later implemented as the Hungarian border barrier the same year by the Hungarian government.[5][6] During the 2015 European migrant crisis, over 10,000 Syrian and Iraqi migrants passed through the village, with only a handful of them aiming to settle there.[7] In 2017, only two Muslims were known to choose Ásotthalom as their permanent residence.[7] There are no mosque-designed structures built in the village up to date and Toroczkai banned any building of mosques that year.[7] In addition, the local government had banned the Muslim call to prayer,[8] burqa, and public displays of same-sex affection.[7][8] 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.[9] 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".[10] 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.[11][12]

In June 2018, Toroczkai discussed plans with Afrikaner farmers to relocate to Ásotthalom.[13][14][15]

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[16] and led its county list during the elections of 2010 and 2014.[17]

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.[18]

He said the platform had plans to return to the original goals pursued by Jobbik, including halting 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.[18]

On 8 June 2018, Jobbik withdrew Toroczkai's membership and excluded 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.[19][20]

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