Rodoljub Šabić
Родољуб Шабић
Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government
In office
13 June 2002 – 16 October 2003
Preceded byVeljko Odalović
Succeeded byZoran Lončar
Personal details
Born (1955-10-15) 15 October 1955
Derventa, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Political partySocial Democracy (1997–2002)
Social Democratic Party (2002–2004)
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade
OccupationLawyer

Rodoljub Šabić (Serbian Cyrillic: Родољуб Шабић, born 15 October 1955) is a Serbian lawyer, former Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government of Serbia, as well as the First Commissioner for Information of Public Importance of Serbia from 2004 to 2018.[1][2]

Biography

He was born in Derventa into a family of Yugoslav leftists, Mustafa and Stanka in 1955[3] while he spent his childhood in Sarajevo, Brčko and Tuzla, and at the age of twelve his family moved to Belgrade.[4][5] Šabić identifies as a Serb and is non-religious.[5] He graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. and worked as a lawyer.[4] Together with 7 other lawyers, he founded CESID.[4] He is married and has one child.

He has a sister, Jaca, an engineer, who has lived and worked in Canada since the 1990s.[3]

Political career

He became involved in politics in the 1980s, when he was a Vice Secretary of Legislation in Ante Marković's government.[4] He was then one of the founders of the political party called Social Democracy, and then joined the Social Democratic Party, from which he resigned when he was elected Commissioner for Information of Public Importance in December 2004.[4] He was a Member of the National Assembly and Vice-President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.[1] From June 19, 2002, he was the Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government in the Government of the Republic of Serbia, under Zoran Đinđić and after his assassination under Zoran Živković. He was elected for the second seven-year term as the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection in December 2011.[1] In 2018, his term ended.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Rodoljub Šabić - poverenik za informacije od javnog značaja u Republici Srbiji" [Rodoljub Sabic - Commissioner for Information of Public Importance in the Republic of Serbia]. www.ekapija.com (in Serbian). Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  2. ↑ "Упознајте Повереника - Милан Мариновић - Повереник за информације од јавног значаја и заштиту података о личности". www.poverenik.rs. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  3. 1 2 Radovanović, Rade (30 August 2013). "Koliko su ljudi racionalna bića" [How rational people are]. Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Rodoljub Šabić Biografija | eIzbori". 30 December 2014. Archived from the original on 30 December 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  5. 1 2 T. B. Đ. (20 June 2007). "Rodoljub Šabić - Čovek od reči" [A man of his word]. poverenik.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 11 June 2020.


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