Goran Čabradi

Goran Čabradi (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Чабради; born 1968) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as the leader and sole parliamentary representative of the Green Party.

Early life and career

Čabradi was born in Novi Sad in the province of Vojvodina, Serbia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He has a master's degree in environmental protection and has worked in municipal waste management. Čabradi was a member of the Greens of Serbia before forming the breakaway Green Party.[1]

Parliamentary career

Čabradi led the Green Party's electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] The party received 23,890 votes (0.63%), well below the five per cent electoral threshold for representation in the assembly. As the list was recognized by Serbia's election commission as representing the country's Slovak minority,[3] however, the threshold requirement was waived, the party was awarded one seat, and Čabradi was duly declared elected.

In September 2016, a group of dissident Green Party members sought to remove Čabradi as party president. The dissidents, led by Slavica Vasilijević, charged that Čabradi was governing the party in an arbitrary fashion; they also opposed Čabradi's decision to sign a draft document on the Srebrenica massacre that, in their view, described the Serbian people as genocidal.[4] Online sources do not indicate exactly how this situation was resolved, though it seems to have led to a party split. As of March 2017, the Green Party's website still lists Čabradi as president,[5] while the website for a rival group called the "Green Party of Serbia" lists Vasilijević as president.[6]

Following his election to the assembly, Čabradi originally served in a parliamentary group with Nenad Čanak's League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina.[7] He left the group in February 2017, after Čedomir Jovanović of the Liberal Democratic Party joined in a bid to ensure it would not lose its official status in the assembly.[8]

Čabradi is a member of the parliamentary environmental protection committee and the committee on the rights of the child; a deputy member of the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for Austria, Germany, Spain, and Sweden.[9]

References

  1. ↑ MR GORAN ČABRADI, Zelena Stranka, accessed 24 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ЗЕЛЕНА СТРАНКА), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 24 March 2017.
  3. ↑ "Final election results announced; we compare them with 2014", B92, 6 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Miloš Miljković, "'Kap koja je prelila čašu - potpis na deklaraciju o Srebrenici'", Danas, 19 September 2016, accessed 24 March 2017.
  5. ↑ MR GORAN ČABRADI, Zelena Stranka, accessed 24 March 2017.
  6. ↑ Advokat Slavica Vasilijević – pravo, Zelena Stranka Srbije, accessed 24 March 2017.
  7. ↑ LDP leader leaves his party's group in National Assembly, B92, 8 February 2017, accessed 24 March 2017.
  8. ↑ "Goran Čabradi napustio poslanički klub LSV–Zelena stranka", Radio Television of Serbia, 14 February 2017, accessed 24 March 2017.
  9. ↑ GORAN CABRADI, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 24 March 2017.
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