Árpád Fremond

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Árpád Fremond
Fremond Árpád
Member of the National Assembly of Serbia
Assumed office
11 June 2008
Personal details
Born (1981-12-04) 4 December 1981 (age 40)
Bačka Topola, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political partyAlliance of Vojvodina Hungarians

Árpád Fremond (Serbian Cyrillic: Арпад Фремонд, romanized: Arpad Fremond; born 4 December 1981) is an ethnic Hungarian politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2008 as a member of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség, VMSZ).

Early life and private career[]

Fremond was born in Bačka Topola, Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Raised in the nearby village of Pačir, he earned a degree from Bačka Topola's agricultural college in 2000 as a veterinary technician. He later graduated from the University of Novi Sad's Faculty of Teacher training in Sombor (Subotica branch), and in 2010–11 he earned a master's degree from the same institution.[1][2][3]

Politician[]

Fremond became a member of the VMSZ in 2000 and was a founding member of its youth wing.[4] He appeared on the party's electoral lists for the Assembly of Vojvodina in the 2004 provincial election and for the Bačka Topola municipal assembly in the concurrent 2004 Serbian local elections, although he did not receive a mandate to serve in either body.[5][6]

He first sought election to the national assembly in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election, receiving the fifth position on the VMSZ's list.[7] The party won three seats, and he was not selected as part of its assembly delegation.[8] (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Fremond's list position had no formal bearing on his chances of election.)[9] For the 2008 election, the VMSZ led led an electoral alliance called the Hungarian Coalition. The coalition's list won four seats, all of which were given to the VMSZ; Fremond appeared on the list and, this time, was assigned a mandate.[10] The results of the election were inconclusive, but the For a European Serbia alliance eventually formed a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS), and the VMSZ provided crucial support to the administration in parliament.

Fremond also appeared on the Hungarian Coalition's list for the Bačka Topola in the 2008 local elections. As in 2004, he did not take a local mandate.[11]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Fremond was given the fourth position on the VMSZ's list for the 2012 election and was re-elected when the list won five mandates.[12] The Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranks, SNS) won a plurality victory in this election and formed a new coalition government with the SPS; the VMSZ served in opposition for the next two years. Fremond again received the fourth position in 2014 and was promoted to third in 2016; the party won six and four seats respectively on these occasions, and Fremond was re-elected both times.[13] Since 2014, the VMSZ has supported the SNS-led administration in the assembly. During the 2016–20 parliament, Fremond was deputy chair of the parliamentary committee on agriculture, forestry, and water management; a deputy member of the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; a deputy member of the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; a deputy member of the committee on the rights of the child; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Croatia and Hungary.[14]

The VMSZ led a successful drive to increase its voter turnout in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election and won a record eleven seats. Fremond, who once again appeared in the third list position, was elected to a fifth term.[15] He remains deputy chair of the agricultural committee; is a deputy member of the committee on constitutional and legal issues, the health and family committee, and the environmental protection committee; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Croatia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary.[16] Fremond also received the sixth position on the VMSZ's list for Bačka Topola in the concurrent 2020 Serbian local elections and was elected to the municipal parliament when the list won a majority victory with nineteen out of thirty-five seats.[17][18]

In parliament, Fremond has often focused on issues pertaining to Vojvodina's farming and dairy-producing communities.[19]

References[]

  1. ^ Arpad Fremond – POTPREDSEDNIK SVM, Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség, accessed 6 November 2021.
  2. ^ Arpad Fremond, istinomer.rs, accessed 27 April 2017.
  3. ^ Snežana Čongradin, "I ja bih voleo da utičem na liturgije", Danas, 15 March 2009, accessed 6 November 2021.
  4. ^ Fremond Árpád – VMSZ ALELNÖK, Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség, accessed 6 November 2021.
  5. ^ Fremond received the seventeenth position on the party's list at the provincial level. During this period, proportional mandates in Vojvodina provincial elections were awarded at the discretion of successful parties or coalitions; his specific position on the list had no bearing on his chances of election. See РЕШЕЊЕ О УТВРЂИВАЊУ ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ ЗА ИЗБОРЕ ЗА ПОСЛАНИКЕ У СКУПШТИНУ АУТОНОМНЕ ПОКРАЈИНЕ ВОЈВОДИНЕ, 19. СЕПТЕМБРА 2004. ГОДИНЕ, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.
  6. ^ In the 2004 local elections, the first one-third of mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds were distributed to other candidates at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions. See Law on Local Elections, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 33/2002; made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021. Fremond received the nineteenth position on the party's local list in Bačka Topola in 2004. See Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Topola), Volume 36 Number 7 (8 September 2004), p. 85. The party won a plurality victory with fifteen out of forty-one mandates, and he was not chosen for its assembly delegation. See Službeni (Opštine Bačka Topola), Volume 36 Number 13 (21 October 2004), pp. 14-16.
  7. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (8 Савез војвођанских Мађара - Јожеф Каса), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 October 2021.
  8. ^ 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 23 November 2021.
  9. ^ 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 LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017.
  10. ^ Fremond appeared in the thirty-third position on the coalition list. See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (7 МАЂАРСКА КОАЛИЦИЈА - ИШТВАН ПАСТОР), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 October 2021.
  11. ^ Fremond received the thirty-second position on the list. See Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Topola), Volume 40 Number 6 (30 April 2008), p. 68. The list won a majority victory with twenty-two seats. See Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Topola), Volume 40 Number 7 (12 May 2008), p. 74. For the 2008 local elections, all mandates were assigned to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions. See Law on Local Elections (2007), Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 129/2007); made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021.
  12. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (9 VAJDASАGI MAGYAR SZОVETSЕG - PАSZTOR ISTVАN - САВЕЗ ВОЈВОЂАНСКИХ МАЂАРА-ИШТВАН ПАСТОР), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 October 2021.
  13. ^ Избори за народне посланике Наро��не скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5 Vajdasagi Magyar Szovetseg - Pasztor Istvan - Савез војвођанских Мађара - Иштван Пастор), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 October 2021; Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (6 Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség-Pásztor István - Савез војвођанских Мађара-Иштван Пастор), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 October 2021.
  14. ^ ÁRPÁD FREMOND, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 27 April 2017.
  15. ^ ИЗБОРИ ЗА НАРОДНЕ ПОСЛАНИКЕ НАРОДНЕ СКУПШТИНЕ, 21. ЈУН 2020. ГОДИНЕ – Изборне листе (Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség-Pásztor István – Савез војвођанских Мађара – Иштван Пастор), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 October 2021.
  16. ^ ÁRPÁD FREMOND, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 6 November 2021.
  17. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Topola), Volume 52 Number 16 (10 June 2020), p. 264.
  18. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Topola), Volume 52 Number 16 (29 June 2020), p. 269.
  19. ^ See for instance Farmeri očajni, idu iz mlekarstva, B92, 26 May 2015, accessed 27 April 2017; and "Fremond: Važi li prinudna naplata samo u Vojvodini?", Radio Television of Serbia, 19 November 2013, accessed 27 April 2017.
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