Zsombor Újvári

Zsombor Újvári (Serbian Cyrillic: Жомбор Ујвари, romanized: Žombor Ujvari; born 1982) is a Serbian politician from the country's Hungarian community. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2022 as a member of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség, VMSZ).

The native form of this personal name is Újvári Zsombor. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Zsombor Újvári
Újvári Zsombor
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
Assumed office
1 August 2022
Personal details
Born1982
Senta, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political partyAlliance of Vojvodina Hungarians

Early life and private career

Újvári attended primary school in Kanjiža and completed high school and higher electrical engineer training in Subotica. He graduated from the "Mihajlo Pupin" Technical Faculty in Zrenjanin in 2017 with certification as a graduate information technology engineer. He has worked in the public sector since 2012 and is employed by Komunalac in Kanjiža as a clerk for personnel records and information technology.[1]

Politician

Újvári appeared in the sixth position on the VMSZ's electoral list for the Kanjiža municipal assembly in the 2020 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won a landslide majority victory with twenty out of twenty-nine seats.[2][3] After the election, he was appointed to the municipal council (i.e., the executive branch of the municipal government) with responsibility for tourism and information.[4]

Parliamentarian

Újvári received the fourth position on the VMSZ's list in the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won five mandates.[5] He resigned from the Kanjiža municipal council following the election, on 22 July 2022, as he could not hold a dual mandate as a parliamentarian and a member of the local executive.[6]

He is now a member of the parliamentary committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a member of the committee on the rights of the child; a deputy member of the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government; a deputy member of the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; a deputy member of the European integration committee; a member of the European Union–Serbia stabilization and association committee; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Italy, Romania, and Turkey.[7]

References
  1. Општинско веће: Жомбор Ујвари, Municipality of Kanjiža, accessed 2 June 2022.
  2. Službeni list (Opštine Kanjiźa), Volume 53 Number 14 (8 June 2020), p. 347.
  3. Službeni List (Opštine Kanjiža), Volume 53 Number 16 (22 June 2020), pp. 373-378.
  4. By virtue of holding executive office, he was required to resign from the local assembly. See Službeni list (Opštine Kanjiźa), Volume 53 Number 20 (21 August 2020), p. 407, 416.
  5. "Ko su kandidati Saveza vojvođanskih Mađara-Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség za poslanike", Danas, 18 February 2022, accessed 28 May 2022.
  6. Sluzbeni List (Opštine Kanjiža), Volume 55 Number 17 (29 September 2022), pp. 433-434.
  7. ZSOMBOR ÚJVÁRI, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 January 2023.
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