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

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Early life and private career

Pavlović is a graduate of the

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(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

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'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

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and its allies, and Pavlović initially served as an opposition 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

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."Opozicija: Intenzivirane podele, postoji realna opasnost od građanskih sukoba"
N1, 3 May 2020, accessed 17 June 2020.

References

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