Andrea Galgó Ferenci

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Andrea Galgó Ferenci, also written as Andrea Galgó-Ferenci; Serbian Cyrillic: Андреа Галго Ференци; 8 November 1973 – December 2024, was a Serbian politician from the Hungarian community. She was briefly a member of the Serbian parliament in 2007 with the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (VMSZ). She was found dead in Bečej on 31 December 2024, after being reported missing on 23 December; authorities said there was no third-party involvement.

She was born in Bečej, at that time part of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Yugoslavia. She studied economics at the Subotica campus of the University of Novi Sad and later taught at the Higher School of Economics and Commerce in Bečej.

In 2007, Galgó Ferenci was placed at number 157 on the VMSZ’s electoral list for the Serbian parliamentary election. The list won three seats, and she joined the parliamentary delegation. At that time, mandates were given to parties rather than to individuals, so her exact position on the list did not strictly determine her election.

She served briefly as a substitute member of Serbia’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) starting 25 June 2007 but did not join any PACE parliamentary group. She resigned from the national assembly on 16 July 2007, and her PACE membership ended on 1 October 2007.

In 2008, she was ninth on the Hungarian Coalition list for the Bečej municipal assembly. The list won 13 of 36 seats, but she did not take a seat. After Serbia changed its electoral rules in 2011 to award mandates in numerical order, she ran again in Bečej in the 2012 local elections, being 35th of 36 on the VMSZ list, which was not high enough to win a seat when the list won eight seats.

During post-election talks for a new local coalition, Galgó Ferenci and Ištvan Acsai left the VMSZ to form a local group called For Bečej. On 16 July 2012 she was appointed to Bečej’s municipal council, with responsibility for education, culture, and civil society. She was removed from the council on 29 January 2015 when the VMSZ joined the local government.