Rodoljub Šabić (, born 15 October 1955) is a

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n 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.

Biography

He was born in

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into a family of Yugoslav leftists, Mustafa and Stanka in 1955 while he spent his childhood in

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and

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, and at the age of twelve his family moved to

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. Šabić identifies as a

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and is non-religious. He graduated from the

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. and worked as a lawyer. Together with 7 other lawyers, he founded CESID. He is married and has one child. He has a sister, Jaca, an engineer, who has lived and worked in

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since the 1990s.

Political career

He became involved in politics in the 1980s, when he was a Vice Secretary of Legislation in

Ante Marković Ante Marković (; 25 November 1924 – 28 November 2011) was a Croatian and Yugoslav politician, businessman and engineer. Marković is most notable for having served as the last prime minister of SFR Yugoslavia. Early life Marković, was a Bos ...

's government. He was then one of the founders of the political party called

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, and then joined the

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, from which he resigned when he was elected Commissioner for Information of Public Importance in December 2004. He was a Member of the

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and Vice-President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. 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 Zoran Đinđić ( sr-Cyrl, Зоран Ђинђић, ; 1 August 1952 – 12 March 2003) was a Serbian politician who served as the prime minister of Serbia from 2001 until his assassination in 2003. He was the mayor of Belgrade in 1997. Đinđić ...

and after his

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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. In 2018, his term ended.

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