Aleksandra Čabraja (; born 1965) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016, originally with the reformist It's Enough – Restart association and later with the Civic Platform and the Green Party.
Early life and career Čabraja graduated in English literature and the English language from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology and subsequently became a teacher in these subjects. She has translated several books into Serbian, including publications by Margaret Atwood and Philippa Gregory.Aleksandra Čabraja, istinomer.rs, accessed 24 March 2017.
Parliamentary career Čabraja received the ninth position on the It's Enough – Restart electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election and was declared elected when the list won sixteen mandates.Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ДОСТА ЈЕ БИЛО – САША РАДУЛОВИЋ) , Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 18 March 2017. The election was won by the Serbian Progressive Party 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."Bivši poslanici "Dosta je bilo" osnivaju novu organizaciju", 021.rs, 24 February 2017, accessed 24 March 2017. The new group supported Saša Janković's bid for the Serbian presidency in the 2017 election.Bivši poslanici Dosta je bilo podržavaju Jankovića, mondo.rs, 28 February 2017, accessed 24 March 2017. 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."Bivši poslanici DJB i Nove stranke osnovali novi poslanički klub", Blic (source: Tanjug), 31 May 2017, accessed 14 August 2017.
Early in her mandate, Čabraja was a member of the assembly's culture and information committee.Aleksandra Cabraja, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 24 March 2017. She is a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for Austria, Canada, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom.ALEKSANDRA CABRAJA, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 21 August 2017.
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.Mirjana Čekerevac, "Iz Kluba samostalnih poslanika „izbrisani” Živković i Čabraja", Politika, 25 March 2019, accessed 23 April 2019. She joined the Green Party on 24 April 2019, becoming its second member in the assembly."Čabraja novi poslanik Zelene stranke", Danas, 24 April 2019, accessed 14 May 2019. 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 2020 Serbian parliamentary election."Čabraja: Ne izlazim na izbore", Danas, 4 June 2020, accessed 16 June 2020.ALEKSANDRA CABRAJA, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 17 June 2010.
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