Kötél was elected to the town council in Mezőtúr, southeast Hungary, in a Sunday by-election.

His Facebook comments, posted three years ago, had fantasised about killing Roma and hanging politicians.

Jobbik dissociates itself from and condemns those statements, Vona declared.

Vona ordered Kötél to move in with Kálmán Jónás, the Roma man who heads the Jobbik chapter in Hajdúszoboszló, for three days.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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