Aleksandra Čabraja ( sr-Cyrl, Александра Чабраја; born 1965) is a politician in

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. She has served in the

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since 2016, originally with the reformist It's Enough – Restart association and later with the

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and the

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Early life and career

Čabraja graduated in

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and the

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from the

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and subsequently became a teacher in these subjects. She has translated several books into Serbian language, Serbian, including publications by

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and

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Parliamentary career

Čabraja received the ninth position on the It's Enough – Restart

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in the

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and was declared elected when the list won sixteen mandates. The election was won by the

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and its allies, and Čabraja serves as an opposition member. In February 2017, Čabraja and two of her parliamentary colleagues left the It's Enough – Restart parliamentary group and started a new organization called the Civic Platform. In announcing her decision, Čabraja said that It's Enough – Restart did not deal well with dissenting opinions. The new group supported

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's bid for the Serbian presidency in the 2017 election. In May 2017, the three members of this group joined with two parliamentarians from the New Party to start a new parliamentary caucus known as the Independent MPs Club. Early in her mandate, Čabraja was a member of the assembly's culture and information committee. She is a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for

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, and the

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. Čabraja was excluded from the Independent MPs Club on 25 March 2019 and subsequently charged that the club had become a ''de facto'' extension of the Alliance for Serbia coalition. She joined the Green Party on 24 April 2019, becoming its second member in the assembly. She does not appear to still be a member of the party, however; a June 2020 report in ''Danas'' listed her as an independent, as does the National Assembly's website. Unlike the Green Party, she supports a boycott of the

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.ALEKSANDRA CABRAJA
National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 17 June 2010.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cabraja, Aleksandra 1965 births Living people Politicians from Belgrade 21st-century Serbian women politicians 21st-century Serbian politicians Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Enough is Enough (party) politicians Civic Platform (Serbia) politicians Green Party (Serbia) politicians Women members of the National Assembly (Serbia)