Ásotthalom () is a

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, in the

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of southern

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, near the border with

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Geography

It covers an area of and has a population of 3,856 people (2017).Ásotthalom, KSH
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Politics

The local mayor

László Toroczkai László Toroczkai (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian politician, journalist, leader of the Far-right politics, far-right Our Homeland Movement political party, and former mayor of Ásotthalom. He is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly ...

was the vice-president of the right-wing nationalist

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party, but after his exclusion he created a new

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. During the 2015

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, over 10,000 Syrian and Iraqi migrants have passed through the village, with some aiming to settle there. As per 2017, only two Muslims are known to be permanently settled there. There are no mosque-designed structures and the mayor have banned any building of mosques in 2017. In 2017, it was reported that the local government had banned the Muslim call to prayer, Muslim clothing, and public displays of same-sex affection. The mayor have called for all the Christian locals to support for a "holy war on Muslims" and multiculturalism. In April 2017, after a lawsuit challenging the ban was filed, the Constitutional Court struck down the ban, ruling that it violated human rights law as it aimed to "limit directly the freedom of speech, conscience and religion". In June 2018, the mayor spoke with some

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farmers from South Africa about plans to resettle Afrikaners to live in Ásotthalom.How Hungary Became A Haven For The Alt Right
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External links

* in Hungarian

References

Populated places in Csongrád-Csanád County {{Csongrad-geo-stub