Zsombor Újvári (; born 1982) is a Serbian politician from the country's Hungarian community. He was a member of the Serbian parliament from 2022 to 2024 and in 2024 became the president (i.e., speaker) of the Kanjiža municipal assembly. Újvári is a member of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (VMSZ).
Early life and private career Újvári attended primary school in Kanjiža, completed high school and higher electrical engineer training in Subotica, and graduated from the "Mihajlo Pupin" Technical Faculty in Zrenjanin in 2017 with certification as a master information technology engineer. He has been employed in the public sector since 2012 and has worked for Komunalac in Kanjiža as a clerk for personnel records and information technology.Magyarkanizsai Községi Tanács: Újvári Zsombor, , Municipality of Kanjiža, accessed 20 April 2024.Жомбор Ујвари, Municipality of Kanjiža, accessed 2 January 2025.
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.Službeni list (Opštine Kanjiźa), Volume 53 Number 14 (8 June 2020), p. 347.Službeni List (Opštine Kanjiža), Volume 53 Number 16 (22 June 2020), pp. 373-378. 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.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.
He received the fourth position on the VMSZ's list in the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected to the national assembly when the list won five mandates."Ko su kandidati Saveza vojvođanskih Mađara-Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség za poslanike", Danas, 18 February 2022, accessed 28 May 2022. He resigned from the Kanjiža municipal council on 22 July 2022, as he could not hold a dual mandate as a parliamentarian and a member of a local executive.Sluzbeni List (Opštine Kanjiža), Volume 55 Number 17 (29 September 2022), pp. 433-434.
During his parliamentary term, Újvari was member of the labour committee, the committee on the rights of the child, and the European Union–Serbia stabilization and association committee; a deputy member of the judiciary committee, the agriculture committee, and the European integration committee; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Italy, Romania, and Turkey.ZSOMBOR ÚJVÁRI, , National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 20 April 2024. During this time, the VMSZ supported Serbia's government led by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in the assembly.
Újvari appeared in the twenty-ninth position on the VMSZ's list in the 2023 parliamentary election."Ko je na listi SVM za parlamentarne izbore u Srbiji", N1, 8 November 2023, accessed 20 April 2024. Re-election from this position was not a realistic prospect, and he was not elected when the list won six seats; his term ended when the new assembly convened in February 2024. He later received the second position on the VMSZ's list for Kanjiža in the 2024 Serbian local elections and was re-elected to that body when the list won nineteen seats.ИЗБОРНА ЛИСТА БР. 1 - VAJDASÁGI MAGYAR SZÖVETSÉG-DR.PÁSZTOR BÁLINT - SAVEZ VOJVOĐANSKIH MAĐARA-DR BALINT PASTOR, Local Election 2 June 2024, Kanjiža Municipal Election Commission, accessed 6 May 2024. When the new local assembly convened on 10 July 2024, he was chosen as assembly president."Kanjiža – Robert Fejstamer predsednik opštine Kanjiža", Potiski News, 12 July 2023, accessed 5 November 2024.
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