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
Serbs in the town of
Palić. In 2006, the authorities of
Slovakia also banned him from the country for five years because of demonstrations that he organized in front of the Slovak Ministry of Internal Affairs. He became a nationally known political figure during the
2006 protests in Hungary and especially because of his role in the siege of the headquarters of
Magyar Televízió, the Hungarian
public television where he led the protesting crowd in
Budapest from the
Kossuth Square to the
Liberty Square.
Mayor of Ásotthalom (2013–2022) Between 2013 and 2022 he was the mayor of
Ásotthalom. He was elected as mayor in a by-election with 71.5% of the vote. In the
regularly scheduled election in 2014 he was re-elected unanimously. He was re-elected with 68.42% of the vote in the
2019 local elections. In early 2015, he proposed 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. 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. In addition, the local government had banned the
Muslim call to prayer, He endorsed policies to ban the promotion of pro-
LGBT rights advertisements and
Islamic religious practices in Ásotthalom, arguing that the aim was to preserve traditions of Hungary. In April 2017, after a lawsuit challenging the ban's legitimacy had been filed, 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". 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. This attitude is evidenced by the fact that he is the patron of the Hungulf Expo and Conference, which builds friendly relations with the Arab countries of the Gulf, and Toroczkai is the chairman of the Hungary-Bahrain Friendship Group. In June 2018, Toroczkai discussed plans with
Afrikaner farmers to relocate to Ásotthalom.
Party leader Between 2010 and 2014, he was a local representative of
Csongrád County. He is the former vice president of the
Jobbik party and led its county list during the elections of 2010 and 2014. 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 23 June to integrate its ideology and policies into the party's political programmes or risk a break-up of Jobbik. He said the platform had plans to return to the original goals pursued by Jobbik, including 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.
In the Parliament In the
2022 parliamentary elections,
Mi Hazánk surpassed the threshold to enter parliament with 6% of the vote, winning 6 seats. On 27 April 2022 the Our Country parliamentary group was formed, in which he was elected as the leader of the Our Country faction. ==References==