István Pásztor (; sr, Иштван Пастор, Ištvan Pastor; born 20 August 1956) is a Serbian politician who has been the

president of the Assembly of Vojvodina The President of the Assembly of Vojvodina presides over that body which serves as the unicameral parliament of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, within the Republic of Serbia. Officeholders Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina ; Pa ...

since 2012. An ethnic Hungarian, he has led the

Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians The Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians ( hu, Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség; sr, Савез војвођанских Мађара, Savez vojvođanskih Mađara; abbr. СВМ, SVM, or VMSZ) is a regionalist political party in Serbia representing th ...

since 2008. He graduated from the

University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law The University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law ( sr, Правни факултет Универзитета у Новом Саду, Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Novom Sadu), also known as the Novi Sad Law School, is a constituent body of the Universit ...

. Currently, Pásztor is the chairman of the

and president of the Assembly of Vojvodina. He was formerly a leader of the

Hungarian Coalition The Hungarian Coalition ( hu, Magyar Koalíció (MK); sr, Мађарска Коалиција (МК), ''Mađarska Koalicija'' (MK)) was a political coalition composed of 3 ethnic Hungarian political parties in Serbia: the Alliance of Vojvodina Hu ...

, which also included two other ethnic Hungarian political parties in Serbia. Pásztor was the candidate of the Hungarian Coalition in the

2008 Serbian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Serbia on January 20 and February 3, 2008. Incumbent President Boris Tadić was re-elected as president in the second round with 51% of the vote, defeating challenger Tomislav Nikolić. The elections for presid ...

. He won 2.26% of the vote in the first round, and supported

Boris Tadić Boris Tadić ( sr-cyr, Борис Тадић, ; born 15 January 1958) is a Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2004 to 2012. Born in Sarajevo, he graduated from the University of Belgrade with a degree in psychology ...

in the second round.

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