Sonja Pavlović ( sr-Cyrl, Соња Павловић; born 1957) is a politician in

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. She served in the

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from 2016 to 2020, originally as a member of the reformist Enough Is Enough association and later with the Civic Platform.

Early life and private career

Pavlović is a graduate of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture (1985). She has worked on more than one hundred design projects, has owned the ARHIDUR project bureau in

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since 2010, and has participated in the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts's contest for improving the city's Sava amphitheater. She lives in Belgrade.

Political career

Pavlović received the eleventh position on the It's Enough – Restart

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in the

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and was elected when the list won sixteen mandates. The election was won by the Serbian Progressive Party and its allies, and Pavlović initially served as an

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member in the parliamentary grouping led by

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. In February 2017, Pavlović and two of her parliamentary colleagues left It's Enough – Restart and launched a new organization called the Civic Platform. In May of the same year, the three members of this group joined with two parliamentarians from the New Party to start a parliamentary caucus known as the Independent MPs Club. This group had a rotating leadership, and Pavlović was for a time its deputy leader. Pavlović was a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with

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, and

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. Along with several other opposition parties, the Civic Platform boycotted the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election."Opozicija: Intenzivirane podele, postoji realna opasnost od građanskih sukoba"
N1, 3 May 2020, accessed 17 June 2020.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pavlovic, Sonja 1957 births Living people Politicians from Belgrade Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Enough is Enough (party) politicians Civic Platform (Serbia) politicians University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture alumni 21st-century Serbian women politicians 21st-century Serbian politicians Women members of the National Assembly (Serbia)