He is a workplace safety engineer and has been president of the community's volunteer fire department for many years.
[1][2][3] Varga entered political life as a member of the Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians (Demokratska zajednica vojvođanskih Mađara, DZVM), which was at the time the dominant political party representing Hungarians in the province.
The DZVM experienced a serious split in 1994, and several prominent members joined the breakaway Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (Savez vojvođanskih Mađara, SVM), which ultimately replaced the DZVM as the main party of the community.
The SVM contested the 2000 provincial election as part of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), a broad and ideologically diverse coalition of parties opposed to the authoritarian rule of Slobodan Milošević.
[8] He ran for mayor of Bečej in the 2004 Serbian local elections as the candidate of the SVM and the Christian Democratic European Movement, and was defeated in the second round of voting.
[14][15][16] Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2000, such that the entire country was counted as a single electoral division and all mandates were distributed to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties and coalitions, irrespective of numerical order.
The SVM fielded its own list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election, and Varga appeared in the eighty-first position.