Enough is Enough ( sr, Доста је било, Dosta je bilo, DJB) is a

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. It was established on 27 January 2014 around the former

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and his associates from the ministry. Initially, the party had strong

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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

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" ( sr, ), and since then it was commonly known as Enough is Enough ( sr, Доста је било, Dosta je bilo; 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 P ...

, held less than two months after establishment, the organization won 2.09% of votes. In yet another early 2016 Serbian parliamentary election, 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 organization 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 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, 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 Nada Kostić ( sr-Cyrl, Нада Костић; born 17 May 1956) is a Serbian medical doctor, academic, and politician. She briefly served as Serbia's minister of health in the transitional government that was established after the fall of Slobod ...

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 Bor, 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 National Assembly of Serbia from 2016 to 2020 as a member of the Enough is Enough (''Dosta je bilo'', DJB) political movemen ...

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. 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 2020 Serbian parliamentary election 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 organization. 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.

Ideology

It was historically a

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party, and it supported

liberalism Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality and equality before the law."political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for c ...

neoliberalism Neoliberalism (also neo-liberalism) is a term used to signify the late 20th century political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism after it fell into decline following the Second World War. A prominent fa ...

, and

progressivism Progressivism holds that it is possible to improve human societies through political action. As a political movement, progressivism seeks to advance the human condition through social reform based on purported advancements in science, tec ...

. It was also focused on

populist Populism refers to a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group against " the elite". It is frequently associated with anti-establishment and anti-political sentiment. The term developed ...

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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 measu ...

rhetoric, and it advocated

reformism Reformism is a political doctrine advocating the reform of an existing system or institution instead of its abolition and replacement. Within the socialist movement, reformism is the view that gradual changes through existing institutions can eve ...

. Since 2018, it has been described as a

, and

conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization i ...

party, and it opposes immigration. It is positioned on the

right-wing Right-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics, authorit ...

and

on the political spectrum, and it is also supportive of

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and

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Presidents of ''Dosta je bilo'' (2014–present)

Electoral performance

Parliamentary elections

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Presidential elections

Provincial elections

References

External links

Official website
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