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Enough is Enough (, ) is a
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in
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. It was established on 27 January 2014 around the former
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Saša Radulović Saša Radulović ( sr-Cyrl, Саша Радуловић, or ; born 7 June 1965) is a Serbian politician and economist who served as the Minister of Economy (Serbia), minister of economy from 2013 to 2014.Biografije novih ministara. Врем ...
and his associates from the ministry. Initially, the party had strong liberal,
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, and progressive views, and in the 2016 parliamentary election they entered the parliament with 16 seats in total. Between early 2017 and 2018, its
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and liberal factions split off due to the internal conflict in the party. Since then, the party has shifted to the
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and it began advocating souverainist and
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policies alongside numerous right-wing populist stances such as
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. Its leader, Saša Radulović also promoted
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and several
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during the
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.


History

It was founded on 27 January 2014 as Association "It's Enough – Restart" (), and since then it was commonly known as Enough is Enough (; abbr. DJB). In
2014 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 16 March 2014, with nineteen electoral lists competing for 250 members of the National Assembly. The election was called early, after tensions in the coalition led by the ruling Serbian Progressive ...
, held less than two months after establishment, the organisation won 2.09% of votes. In yet another early
2016 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 24 April 2016. Initially, the election were originally due to be held by March 2018, but on 17 January 2016 Prime Minister of Serbia, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić called for a snap election cla ...
, DJB won 6.02% (227,626 votes), thus gaining 16 seats in the
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. The It's Enough–Restart group in the National Assembly lost three of its members in February 2017, when Aleksandra Čabraja, Jovan Jovanović, and Sonja Pavlović left to start an organisation called the Civic Platform. After long delay in deciding whether to take part in the
2017 Serbian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Serbia on 2 April 2017. Incumbent president Tomislav Nikolić was eligible to run for a second five-year term, but opted not to do so. Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić was elected president in the first round ...
, DJB eventually appointed Saša Radulović as candidate for the election. He came in seventh place with 51,651 votes (1.41%). On 15 March 2018, Ljupka Mihajlovska resigned from the DJB assembly group to sit as an independent. The following day,
Miloš Bošković Miloš Bošković ( sr-cyr, Милош Бошковић; born 1985) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2016 to 2018 as a member of the anti-establishment and reformist It's Enough – Restart association, ...
resigned from DJB and also resigned from the assembly, returning his mandate to the association. In 2018, DJB main board expelled assembly members
Nenad Božić Nenad Božić ( sr-cyr, Ненад Божић; born 1971) is a Serbian politician. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016. Božić was elected to the assembly as a member of the anti-establishment and reformist It's Enough – ...
, Vladimir Đurić, and Aleksandar Stevanović from membership in the association on 29 March 2018. Tatjana Macura also resigned from the association on 12 April 2018, following a brief, abortive bid for its presidency. Macura subsequently started a new association called the Free MPs parliamentary group, joined by Božić, Đurić, Mihajlovska, and Stevanović. In addition, Bošković's replacement Nada Kostić ultimately chose not to sit with DJB. In the aftermath of these changes, DJB had seven deputies in the assembly. Only several months later, Dušan Pavlović left the DJB. This led to another wave of leaving. Another five deputies leave the DJB parliamentary club. By the mid-November 2018, DJB was reduced to only two deputies in the Assembly (Radulović and Stamenković) and no parliamentary club. In the 2018 Belgrade election, a combined DJB–
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list failed to pass the electoral threshold. Saša Radulović subsequently stepped down as president of the party on 6 March 2018, along with all deputy presidents. On 21 April 2018 Branislav Mihajlović, head of the DJB in
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, was elected party president. On 8 November 2018 Branislav Mihajlović was dismissed and replaced by deputy party president
Branka Stamenković Branka Stamenković ( sr-Cyrl, Бранка Стаменковић; born 1968) is a Serbian politician. She served in the Serbian national assembly from 2016 to 2020 as a member of Enough Is Enough (DJB), which she led on an interim basis from N ...
as a temporary leader. DJB joined other opposition parties in National Assembly sessions boycott. On 14 December 2018, group of former DJB MPs formed centrist
Party of Modern Serbia The Party of Modern Serbia (, abbr. SMS) is a liberal political party in Serbia. It was established on 14 December 2018 around former MPs from Enough is Enough. History Five MPs that left the opposition parliamentary group Enough is Enoug ...
. On 19 October 2019, Saša Radulović was re-elected as party leader, while Branka Stamenković was elected deputy president. On 7 March 2020. DJB declared
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boycott together with
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coalition and
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. They eventually decided to participate in the elections, but failed to pass the 3% threshold (earned 2.32%), thus becoming non-parliamentary organisation. DJB took part on the 2022 parliamentary elections in coalition with Milan Stamatović (mayor of the Čajetina municipality and the leader of Healthy Serbia movement), and doctor Jovana Stojković, known for her anti-vaccine attitudes. They ran under the name Sovereignists, but again failed to clear the 3 per cent threshold. After the April elections, DJB became inactive until February 2023, when it was announced that it would become politically active again.


Ideology

It was historically a
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party, and it supported
liberalism Liberalism is a Political philosophy, political and moral philosophy based on the Individual rights, rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property, and equality before the law. ...
,
neoliberalism Neoliberalism is a political and economic ideology that advocates for free-market capitalism, which became dominant in policy-making from the late 20th century onward. The term has multiple, competing definitions, and is most often used pe ...
, and
progressivism Progressivism is a Left-right political spectrum, left-leaning political philosophy and Reformism, reform political movement, movement that seeks to advance the human condition through social reform. Adherents hold that progressivism has unive ...
. It was also focused on
populist Populism is a contested concept used to refer to a variety of political stances that emphasize the idea of the " common people" and often position this group in opposition to a perceived elite. It is frequently associated with anti-establis ...
,
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and
anti-corruption Anti-corruption (or anticorruption) comprises activities that oppose or inhibit corruption. Just as corruption takes many forms, anti-corruption efforts vary in scope and in strategy. A general distinction between preventive and reactive measur ...
rhetoric, and it advocated
reformism Reformism is a political tendency advocating the reform of an existing system or institution – often a political or religious establishment – as opposed to its abolition and replacement via revolution. Within the socialist movement, ref ...
. Since 2018, it has been described as a
right-wing populist Right-wing populism, also called national populism and right populism, is a political ideology that combines right-wing politics with populist rhetoric and themes. Its rhetoric employs anti- elitist sentiments, opposition to the Establishm ...
, and
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party, and it opposes immigration. It is positioned on the
right-wing Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position based on natural law, economics, authority, property ...
and
far-right Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, and nativism. This political spectrum situates itself on the far end of the ...
on the political spectrum, and it is also supportive of
souverainism Sovereigntism, sovereignism or souverainism (from , , meaning "the ideology of sovereignty") is the notion of having control over one's conditions of existence, whether at the level of the self, social group, region, nation or globe. Typically ...
and
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. In the
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, DJB was associated with the
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE; , ADLE) was a transnational alliance between two European political parties, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party and the European Democratic Party. ALDE had political ...
. In 2019, it became a member of the European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance.


List of presidents


Electoral performance


Parliamentary elections


Presidential elections


Provincial elections


References


External links


Official website
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