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.

Čabradi was born in Novi Sad in the province of Vojvodina, then part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in 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. He registered his party as a Slovak minority party, although he acknowledged in a 2016 interview with Politika that he did so only because it would have been financially unfeasible to register the party as a non-minority group. He added that he hoped to re-register the party in the near future.

Čabradi led the Green Party's electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election, in which the party ran in an alliance with Jan Paul's Slovak Party and other smaller groups. The party received 23,890 votes (0.63%), well below the five per cent electoral threshold normally required for representation in the assembly. As the list was recognized as representing the country's Slovak minority, 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 rebels, led by Slavica Vasilijević, charged that Čabradi was governing the party in an arbitrary fashion and particularly opposed his decision to support a resolution on the Srebrenica massacre that, in their view, described the Serbian people as genocidal. The Slovak Party, which also opposed the resolution, urged Čabradi to resign his mandate and allow the seat to be filled by someone who would, in their view, properly represent the national minority. Online sources do not indicate exactly how this situation was resolved, though it seems to have resulted in a party split. By March 2017, the Green Party's website continued to list Čabradi as president, while the website for a rival group called the "Green Party of Serbia" listed Vasilijević as president.

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