Tatjana Macura

Tatjana Macura (Serbian Cyrillic: Татјана Мацура; born 27 May 1981) is a Serbian politician. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016, initially as a member of the anti-establishment and reformist It's Enough – Restart (Dosta je bilo, DJB) association, better known in English by the name "Enough Is Enough." On April 12, 2018, Macura announced her resignation from the association.[1] She is now part of a three-member presidency of the Party of Modern Serbia.

Tatjana Macura
Татјана Мацура
Born1981 (age 39–40)
NationalitySerbian
Political partyDJB (2014–2018)
Party of Modern Serbia (2018–)

Early life and career

Macura was born and raised in Zemun, Belgrade, then a part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She is a professional economist and entrepreneur, with experience in the telecommunications sector.[2][3]

Parliamentarian

Macura received the sixth position on the It's enough – Restart electoral list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election.[4] The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.

She received the sixteenth position on the association's list for the 2016 election and was this time elected when the list won sixteen mandates.[5] The election was won by the Serbian Progressive Party and its allies, and DJB served in opposition.

DJB founder Saša Radulović resigned as the association's president in early 2018. Macura announced on 2 April 2018 that she would seek to become his successor, running on a platform that opposed many the party's recent decisions.[6] On 12 April, however, she both ended her leadership bid and announced her resignation from the association.[7] One week later, she joined with four other former DJB delegates to announce the formation of the Free MPs parliamentary group, with herself as the group's leader.[8][9]

All members of the Free MPs parliamentary group also joined a new political group called the Movement of the Center.[10] In December 2018, this group merged with the Social Democratic Alliance to create the Party of Modern Serbia. Macura was chosen as an inaugural member of the group's three-member collective presidency.[11]

Before leaving DJB, Macura was a member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality, the culture and information committee, and the committee on the rights of the child, and a deputy member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and policy reduction.[12] She is currently a member of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, and Montenegro.[13]

References
  1. "Tatjana Macura napustila DJB", Danas, 12 April 2018, accessed 13 April 2018.
  2. TATJANA MACURA, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 3 November 2017.
  3. Mirjana R. Milenković, "Tatjana Macura: Sa Tvitera u politiku", Danas, 18 November 2016, accessed 3 November 2017.
  4. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДОСТА ЈЕ БИЛО - САША РАДУЛОВИЋ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 18 March 2017.
  5. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ДОСТА ЈЕ БИЛО – САША РАДУЛОВИЋ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 18 March 2017.
  6. "Tatjana Macura želi na čelo DJB, sporan joj Radulović", N1, 2 April 2018, accessed 13 April 2018.
  7. "Tatjana Macura napustila DJB", Danas, 12 April 2018, accessed 13 April 2018.
  8. "Macura: Pravimo novu organizaciju, ali ne DJB 2", B92, 19 April 2018, accessed 21 April 2018.
  9. Free MPs Parliamentary Group, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 21 April 2018.
  10. Bivši poslanici DJB registruju udruženje 'Pokret Centra', N1, accessed 18 May 2018.
  11. M. R. Milenković, "Tatjana Macura: Sarađivaćemo sa ostatkom opozicije", Danas, 24 December 2018, accessed 9 January 2019.
  12. TATJANA MACURA, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 3 November 2017.
  13. TATJANA MACURA, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 9 January 2019.
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