Attila Juhász (born 1976)

Juhász was born in Zrenjanin, in what was then the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in the Socialist Republic of Serbia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was raised in nearby Nova Crnja, completed high school in Zrenjanin, and ultimately earned a master's degree in agricultural engineering from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Agriculture in Zemun. From 2003 to 2005, he was employed by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), where he worked in agricultural production in Serbia. He has also been a Balkan regional employee for the Vegetable Production Research Institute in Kecskemét, Hungary. He lives in Nova Crnja.[https://www.vmsz.org.rs/rolunk/szemely/juhasz-attila Juhász Attila] and [https://www.vmsz.org.rs/sr/o-nama/licnost/atila-juhas Atila Juhas], Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, accessed 18 March 2025.

Juhász joined the VMSZ in 2006.[https://www.vmsz.org.rs/rolunk/szemely/juhasz-attila Juhász Attila], Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, accessed 18 March 2025. He appeared in the forty-ninth position on the party's electoral list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election; the VMSZ won three seats, and he was not included in its assembly delegation.[http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/arhiva-izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-2007.php Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (8 Савез војвођанских Мађара - Јожеф Каса)], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422032348/http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/arhiva-izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-2007.php |date=2021-04-22 }}, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024.[https://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/21988/Spisak-poslanika-za-Skupstinu-Srbije "Spisak poslanika za Skupštinu Srbije"], Politika, 13 February 2007, accessed 24 December 2024. (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Juhász could have been given an assembly seat despite his low position on the list, but this did not occur.)Serbia's Law on the Election of Representatives (2000) stipulated that parliamentary mandates would be awarded to electoral lists (Article 80) that crossed the electoral threshold (Article 81), that mandates would be given to candidates appearing on the relevant lists (Article 83), and that the submitters of the lists were responsible for selecting their parliamentary delegations within ten days of the final results being published (Article 84). See Law on the Election of Representatives, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 35/2000, made available via [http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/5/topic/6 LegislationOnline], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603055629/http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/5/topic/6 |date=2021-06-03 }}, accessed 7 April 2024.

In 2008, the VMSZ led a temporary alliance of parties known as the Hungarian Coalition (MK). Juhász received the 198th position on the alliance's list in the 2008 parliamentary election and was again not included in his party's delegation when the list won four seats.[http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/arhiva-izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-2008.php Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (7 МАЂАРСКА КОАЛИЦИЈА - ИШТВАН ПАСТОР)], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422032344/http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/arhiva-izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-2008.php |date=2021-04-22 }}, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024.[https://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/aktuelno.69.html:216976-U-klupama-novi-poslanici R. Ognjanović, "U klupama novi poslanici"], Novosti, 10 June 2008, accessed 29 June 2022. He was also the Hungarian Coalition's candidate in Nova Crnja for the 2008 Vojvodina provincial election, which was held under a system of mixed proportional representation, and was defeated in the first round of voting.

Juhász led the Hungarian Coalition's list in Nova Crnja for the 2008 Serbian local elections, which took place concurrently with the parliamentary and provincial votes, and received a mandate in the local assembly after the list won three out of twenty-five seats.Službeni List (Opštine Nova Crnja), Volume 18 Number 4 (8 May 2008), p. 23.Službeni List (Opštine Nova Crnja), Volume 18 Number 5 (13 May 2008), pp. 25-26.Službeni List (Opštine Nova Crnja), Volume 18 Number 8 (6 June 2008), p. 36.For the 2008 local elections, all mandates were assigned to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions. See [https://www.legislationline.org/documents/id/4326 Law on Local Elections (2007)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317055008/https://www.legislationline.org/documents/id/4326 |date=2022-03-17 }}, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 129/2007); made available via [http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/5/topic/6 LegislationOnline], accessed 29 May 2021. He was appointed to the board of directors of the Đura Jakšić school and served on an expert commission for the protection, development, and use of agricultural land in the municipality.Službeni list (Opštine Nova Crnja), Volume 18 Number 9 (17 July 2008), p. 102, 113.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that all parliamentary mandates were assigned to candidates on successful lists in numerical order.Law on the Election of Members of the Parliament (2000, as amended 2011) (Articles 88 & 92) made available via [http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/5/topic/6 LegislationOnline], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603055629/http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/5/topic/6 |date=2021-06-03 }}, accessed 6 June 2021.

Juhász appeared in the fourth position on the VMSZ's electoral list in the 2012 Vojvodina provincial election and was elected when the party won four proportional mandates.[https://pik.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Strana/izborneliste?izbori=2012 Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 9 - VAJDASÁGI MAGYAR SZÖVETSÉG – PÁSZTOR ISTVÁN – SAVEZ VOJVOĐANSKIH MAĐARA – IŠTVAN PASTOR - кандидати за посланике)], Election 2012, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 3 January 2025. The Democratic Party (DS) won the election and afterward formed a new coalition government that included the VMSZ; Juhász was a government supporter in the provincial assembly and a member of the committee on agriculture.[https://www.vmsz.org.rs/sr/o-nama/licnost/atila-juhas Atila Juhas], Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, accessed 18 March 2025.

The VMSZ began supporting Serbia's government led by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) after the 2014 parliamentary election, and Juhász received an appointment as a state secretary in Serbia's ministry of agriculture and environmental protection in the same year.[https://www.vmsz.org.rs/sr/o-nama/licnost/atila-juhas Atila Juhas], Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, accessed 18 March 2025. As he could not hold a dual mandate, he resigned his seat in the provincial assembly on 22 May 2014.[https://www.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Strana.aspx?s=poslanici&saziv=4 Сазив 2012-2016], Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 22 March 2025.

Juhász led the VMSZ's list for Nova Crnja in the 2016 local elections and was elected when the list won two seats.Službeni List (Opštine Nova Crnja), Volume 25 Number 5 (13 April 2016), p. 98.Službeni List (Opštine Nova Crnja), Volume 25 Number 6 (25 April 2016), pp. 3-4; Službeni List (Opštine Nova Crnja), Volume 25 Number 7 (27 April 2016), p. 1. He resigned his seat on 18 August 2016.Službeni List (Opštine Nova Crnja), Volume 25 Number 13 (18 August 2016), p. 542. He continued to serve as a state secretary and remained in the agriculture ministry after June 2017 when it was restructured as the ministry of agriculture, forestry, and water management.[https://www.rtv.rs/hu/politika/kern-vicsek-vick%C3%B3-%C3%A9s-juh%C3%A1sz-a-vmsz-r%C3%A9gi-%C3%BAj-%C3%A1llamtitk%C3%A1rai_840071.html "Kern, Vicsek, Vickó és Juhász a VMSZ régi-új államtitkárai"], Radio Television of Vojvodina, 14 July 2017, accessed 22 March 2025.

Juhász appeared in the seventh position on the VMSZ's list in the 2020 parliamentary election and was elected to the national assembly when the list won a record nine seats.[https://www.rik.parlament.gov.rs/tekst/1937/izborne-liste.php ИЗБОРИ ЗА НАРОДНЕ ПОСЛАНИКЕ НАРОДНЕ СКУПШТИНЕ, 21. ЈУН 2020. ГОДИНЕ – Изборне листе (4 Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség-Pásztor István – Савез војвођанских Мађара – Иштван Пастор)], Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 27 October 2021.[http://www.parlament.gov.rs/ATILA%2B_JUHAS.1145.891.html ATTILA JUHÁSZ (ATILA JUHAS)], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001124000/http://www.parlament.gov.rs/ATILA+_JUHAS.1145.891.html |date=2020-10-01 }}, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 22 March 2025. He resigned his seat on 30 November 2020 in order to continue serving as a state secretary.[http://www.parlament.gov.rs/national-assembly/composition/members-of-parliament/legislature-archive/3-august-2020-legislature.4558.html 3 August 2020 legislature], National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 22 March 2025. He also led the VMSZ list for Nova Crnja in the 2020 local elections, was elected when the list won two seats, and resigned from the local assembly on 21 August 2020.Službeni List (Opštine Nova Crnja), Volume 29 Number 12 (10 June 2020), p. 185.Službeni List (Opštine Nova Crnja), Volume 29 Number 15 (25 August 2020), p. 210.

The newspaper Danas ran an article in June 2021 noting that, due to his various supplementary incomes, Juhász was receiving considerably more money from the state treasury than Branislav Nedimović, his supervisor as the minister of agriculture.[https://www.danas.rs/vesti/ekonomija/drzavni-sekretari-cesto-bolje-placeni-od-svojih-ministara/ Mirjana N. Stevanović, "Državni sekretari često bolje plaćeni od svojih ministara"], Danas, 30 June 2021, accessed 22 March 2025.

Juhász was re-appointed as a state secretary again after the 2022 parliamentary election, he which he was not a candidate.[https://szmsz.press/2022/11/04/a-vmsz-allamtitkarai-vicsek-nyilas-vicko-juhasz/ "A VMSZ államtitkárai: Vicsek, Nyilas, Vickó, Juhász…"], Szabad Magyar Szo, 4 November 2022, accessed 22 March 2025. In the 2023 parliamentary election, Juhász appeared in the twelfth position on the VMSZ list.[https://n1info.rs/vesti/izbori-2023/ko-je-na-listi-svm-za-parlamentarne-izbore-u-srbiji/ "Ko je na listi SVM za parlamentarne izbore u Srbiji"], N1, 8 November 2023, accessed 20 April 2024. The list won six seats, and he was not elected; he was appointed to a sixth consecutive term as a state secretary in May 2024.[https://hungarytoday.hu/eight-state-secretaries-to-represent-hungarian-interests-in-the-new-serbian-government/ "Eight State Secretaries to Represent Hungarian Interests in the Serbian Government"], Hungary Today, 17 May 2024, accessed 22 March 2025.[http://www.minpolj.gov.rs/atila-juhasz/ атила јухас]; Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management; Government of Serbia; accessed 22 March 2025.

Juhász was a nominal VMSZ candidate for the 2024 Serbian local elections in Nova Crnja, appearing in the twelfth position on its list.VAJDASÁGI MAGYAR SZÖVETSÉG-DR. PÁSZTOR BÁLINT – САВЕЗ ВОЈВОЂАНСКИХ МАЂАРА-ДР. БАЛИНТ ПАСТОР, Local Election 2 June 2024, Nova Crnja Municipal Election Commission, accessed 22 March 2025. He was not elected when the party won two seats.[https://www.rik.parlament.gov.rs/extfile/sr/files/additionalDocuments/651/395/ukupan%20izve%C5%A1taj%20o%20rezultatima%20izbora%20za%20odbornike%20skup%C5%A1tine%20opo%C5%A1tine%20Nova%20Crnja.pdf УКУПАН ИЗВЕШТАЈ О РЕЗУЛТАТИМА ИЗБОРА ЗА ОДБОРНИКЕ СКУПШТИНЕ ОПОШТИНЕ НОВА ЦРЊА], Nova Crnja Municipal Election Commission, 6 June 2024, accessed 12 October 2024.

He is a member of the VMSZ presidency and the party's management committee.[https://www.vmsz.org.rs/rolunk/elnokseg Elnökség], Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, accessed 22 March 2025.

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| party1 = For a European Vojvodina Democratic Party–G17 Plus Boris Tadić (Affiliation: Democratic Party)

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| votes1_2 = 2754

| cand2 = Risto Komnenović

| party2 = Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) (Affiliation: Socialist Party of Serbia)

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| votes2 = 1211

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| cand3 = Dragiša Latinović

| party3 = Christian Democratic Party of Serbia

| votes3 = 1187

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| cand4 = Milenko Vujović

| party4 = Serbian Radical Party

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| votes4 = 1017

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| cand5 = Attila Juhász

| party5 = Hungarian Coalition–István Pásztor (Affiliation: Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians)

| color5 = {{party color|League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina}}

| votes5 = 921

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| cand6 = Emilija Putnik

| party6 = Democratic Party of Serbia–New Serbia Dr. Vojislav Koštunica (Affiliation: Democratic Party of Serbia)

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| valid = 6380

| valid2 = 4774

| invalid = 241

| invalid2 = 104

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| source = [http://pik.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Strana?s=rezultati2008v&i=2008 Избори мај 2008. године - резултати по већинском изборном систему], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422230528/http://pik.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Strana?s=rezultati2008v&i=2008 |date=2021-04-22 }}, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 6 May 2024.

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