She graduated from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Philosophy, with a focus on Russian and Serbo-Croatian language and literature.
[2] The LSV contested the 2008 Serbian parliamentary election on the Democratic Party's For a European Serbia electoral list.
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists.
[8] Papuga, along with the LSV's other assembly members, supported a 2015 resolution to recognize the Srebrenica massacre as constituting an act of genocide.
[9] In 2017, the Croatian News Agency reported that she described an incident in Sonta, in which three Croat youths were attacked, as having been ethnically motivated.
"[10] She unsuccessfully sought re-election in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election, appearing at the nineteenth position on the United Democratic Serbia coalition list.
Vojvodina subsequently switched to a system of proportional representation for the 2016 provincial election, and Papuga received the fifteenth position on the LSV's list.