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. He was elected to the Assembly of Vojvodina for Bečej's first electoral division under its banner in the May 1992 provincial election and was re-elected for the same constituency in the December 1992 election. During this period, politics in Vojvodina and Serbia generally were dominated by the Socialist Party of Serbia.
