Vojvodina, officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia, located in Central Europe. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital Belgrade and the Sava and Danube Rivers. The administrative centre, Novi Sad, is the second-largest city in Serbia.
Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Hungary led by Viktor Orbán.
The Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians is a regionalist political party in Serbia, representing the Hungarian minority in Vojvodina.
The politics of Vojvodina function within the framework of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The province has a legislative assembly composed of 120 proportionally elected members, and a government composed of a president and cabinet ministers. The current political status of Vojvodina is regulated by the Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina from 2008.
Hungarians in Serbia are a recognized national minority in Serbia. According to the 2022 census, the population of ethnic Hungarians in Serbia is 184,442, constituting 2.8% of the total population, which makes them the second-largest ethnic group in the country behind Serbs and the largest minority group. The vast majority of them live in the northern autonomous province of Vojvodina, where they number 182,321 and make up 10.5% of the province's population. Almost 99% of all Hungarians in Serbia live in the province of Vojvodina. Most Hungarians in Serbia are Roman Catholics, while smaller numbers of them are Protestant. Their cultural center is located in Subotica.
András Ágoston is a Serbian retired politician. An ethnic Hungarian, he led the Democratic Party of Vojvodina Hungarians from its foundation in 1997 to 2012.
Sándor Páll was an ethnic Hungarian politician in Serbia and leader of Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians.
Provincial elections were held for the unicameral Assembly of Serbia's northern Autonomous Province of Vojvodina on 11 May 2008, with a second-round to be held on 25 May 2008. They were scheduled by the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia Oliver Dulić on 29 December 2007, as required per the Constitutional Law adopted by the National Assembly of Serbia on 30 September 2006 that proclaimed the new Constitution.
The Hungarian Coalition was a political coalition composed of 3 ethnic Hungarian political parties in Serbia: the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, the Democratic Party of Vojvodina Hungarians, and the Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians. The leader of the Hungarian Coalition was István Pásztor.
Provincial elections were held in Vojvodina in May 2012. The first round was held on 6 May, while the second round was held on 20 May.
Árpád Fremond is a Serbian politician from the country's Hungarian community. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2008 to 2022 as a member of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (VMSZ) and became the leader of Serbia's Hungarian National Council in December 2022.
Elvira Kovács is a Serbian politician from the country's Hungarian community. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2007 as a member of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (VMSZ).
Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 3 April 2022 to elect the National Assembly, coinciding with a referendum. Hungary's incumbent prime minister Viktor Orbán won re-election to a fourth term. Addressing his supporters after the partial results showed Fidesz leading by a wide margin, Orbán said: "We won a victory so big that you can see it from the moon, and you can certainly see it from Brussels." Opposition leader Péter Márki-Zay admitted defeat shortly after Orbán's speech. Reuters described it as a "crushing victory".
Bálint Pásztor is a Serbian politician. An ethnic Hungarian, he has led the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (VMSZ) since October 2023, initially on an acting basis and since March 2024 as the party's elected president. Pásztor has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2007 and has been the president of the Subotica City Assembly since 2020.
Zoltán Pék is a Serbian politician from the country's Hungarian community. He was the mayor of Senta from 2008 to 2010 and a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2012 to 2022, and now serves in the Senta municipal assembly. Pék is a member of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (VMSZ).
Áron Csonka is a politician in Serbia from the country's Hungarian national minority community. Since 2010, he has been the leader of the Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians. He was a member of the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2016 to 2020.
Mihály Nyilas is an ethnic Hungarian politician in Serbia. He was the mayor and Kanjiža from 2008 to 2014 and was a deputy prime minister of Vojvodina from 2014 to 2020. He is now a secretary of state in Serbia's ministry of justice. Nyilas is a member of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians.
Annamária Vicsek is a Serbian politician from the country's Hungarian community. She has served two terms in the National Assembly of Serbia and has been a secretary of state since 2016 in Serbia's Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development. In Serbian politics, Vicsek is a member of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (VMSZ).
Provincial elections were held in Vojvodina on 17 December 2023 to elect members of the Assembly of Vojvodina. Initially scheduled to be held by 30 June 2024, the possibility of calling a snap election was discussed in 2023. The Assembly dissolved itself on 16 November 2023, setting the election date for 17 December. It was concurrently held with the parliamentary and local elections in 65 cities and municipalities in Serbia.
Borisz Bájity is a Serbian politician from the country's Hungarian community. He is a delegate in Serbia's Hungarian National Council and has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since February 2024. Bájity is a member of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (VMSZ).
