Peđa Grbin

Peđa Grbin (born 24 May 1979) is a Croatian lawyer and politician who has been serving as president of the Social Democratic Party since 2020. He has represented VIII electoral district in the Croatian Parliament since 2011.

Peđa Grbin
President of the Social Democratic Party
Assumed office
3 October 2020
DeputyBiljana Borzan
Sabina Glasovac
Ranko Ostojić
Siniša Hajdaš Dončić
Preceded byDavor Bernardić
Zlatko Komadina (acting)
Leader of the Opposition
Assumed office
3 October 2020
Prime MinisterAndrej Plenković
Preceded byDavor Bernardić
Zlatko Komadina (acting)
Member of Parliament
Assumed office
22 December 2011
ConstituencyVIII electoral district
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Croatian Parliament
Assumed office
28 February 2020[1]
Preceded byOrsat Miljenić
Chairman of the Committee on the Constitution, Standing Orders and Political System of the Croatian Parliament
In office
12 October 2012[2] – 28 December 2015[3]
Preceded byJosip Leko
Succeeded byRobert Podolnjak
Personal details
Born (1979-05-24) 24 May 1979
Pula, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political partySocial Democratic Party (1998–present)
Alma materUniversity of Zagreb

He also served as the Chairman of the Parliament's Committee on the Constitution, Standing Orders and Political System from 2012 until 2015.[4] He was vice president of the SDP from 2016 to 2018 when he was suspended from that position.[5][6]

Early life, education and professional career

Grbin attended elementary and high school in Pula, after which he enrolled in the Zagreb Faculty of Law from which he graduated in 2003. During elementary and high school days he played basketball for the local basketball team Gradine Pula. After graduating, Grbin worked as a trainee in a law office and afterwards as an attorney from 2006 to 2011.[7]

Political career

After serving as a city councilor and a member of the municipal executive council in Pula, Grbin successfully ran in 2011 parliamentary election, and was elected to the Parliament in the VIII electoral district. He was reelected in 2015.[7]

Early career

Grbin joined SDP in 1998, and soon after that entered SDP Youth Forum where he was secretary general from 2001 to 2002. After graduating from law school he returned to Pula where he served first as a member of the municipal executive council from 2005 to 2009 and than as a city councilor from 2009 to 2013. Grbin was elected to the head committee of SDP in 2004 and has been a member of that party governing body until 2016 when he was elected to the party presidency.[8] In July 2018 he and three other members of SDP presidency were suspended from their positions because of their dissatisfaction with the way party president Davor Bernardić leads SDP.[6] Their suspensions were partially lifted in October 2019.[9]

Parliamentary career

In 2011 parliamentary election, Grbin was elected in the Croatian Parliament for the first time. After Josip Leko was elected to the position of Speaker of Croatian Parliament, Grbin was elected to the position of Chairman of the Committee on the Constitution, Standing Orders and Political System of the Croatian Parliament, where he served until the end of 2015. During his tenure as a committee chairman, Grbin was responsible for the preparation and adoption of the Act on the Co-Operation of the Croatian Parliament and the Government of the Republic of Croatian in European Affairs, new Standing Orders of the Croatian Parliament and 2015 amendments to Act on Election of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament.

Grbin was reelected to Croatian Parliament in 2015 parliamentary election and again in 2016 parliamentary election, where he served as a Deputy Chairman of the Committee on the Constitution, Standing Orders and Political System of the Croatian Parliament.[4]

On 3 October 2020, Grbin was elected president of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).[10]

References
  1. "Hrvatski sabor". Sabor.hr. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  2. "Hrvatski sabor". Sabor.hr. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  3. "Hrvatski sabor". Sabor.hr. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  4. "Biography at the official web page of the Croatian Parliament". Sabor.hr. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  5. "Peđa Grbin biografija". www.biografija.com (in Croatian). Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  6. "SDP Suspends Senior Officials". www.total-croatia-news.com. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  7. "Kako SDP-ov Veli Jože planira poraziti jakog Miletića". tportal.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  8. "Newly elected members of the SDP governing bodies". sdp.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  9. "SDP djelomično ukida suspenzije buntovnicima protiv Bernardića". tportal.hr (in Croatian). HINA. 25 October 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  10. "Peđa Grbin novi je predsjednik SDP-a". Sdp.hr (in Croatian). SDP. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
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