József Tóbiás

He was third on the list "Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians – Dr Bálint Pásztor" in the Serbian parliamentary election of 25 October 2026, which won 34,755 votes (0.81%) with 8,135 of 8,392 polling stations counted; the latest CeSID and Ipsos projection gave it two seats.

Career

Tóbiás runs a family business now in its third generation, holds a handball coaching diploma (2011) and has led the handball club in Ada for more than twenty years. As a Democratic Party member he won the Ada seat in the Assembly of Vojvodina in 2008 and 2012 and served until 2016. He sat on the Ada municipal council in 2016–2020, joined the VMSZ in 2018 and heads its Ada branch, and was president of the Ada municipal assembly from 2020 to 2024. Fourth on the VMSZ list in December 2023, he entered parliament in February 2024 and became deputy chair of its agriculture committee; since 2024 he has chaired the VMSZ council. After the October 2026 vote, VMSZ vice-president Annamária Vicsek wrote that the party would have two members of parliament, against six in the outgoing assembly (Szabad Magyar Szó).

Positions

Campaigning in Kisorosz in October 2026, Tóbiás said the VMSZ was the only independent Hungarian party based in Vojvodina that represented the community effectively in the Belgrade parliament, and that a convincing result would give it political and negotiating weight in both Belgrade and Budapest (Magyar Szó).

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