Sabina Ćudić

Sabina Ćudić
Ćudić in 2024
Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
1 December 2022
Parliamentary offices
Member of the Federal House of Representatives
In office
27 November 2018 – 1 December 2022
Additional positions
President of Our Party
Assumed office
11 October 2025
Preceded byEdin Forto
Personal details
Born (1982-04-17) 17 April 1982 (age 43)
PartyOur Party (since 2012)
Spouse
(m. 2014)
Children1
Alma mater

Sabina Ćudić (born 17 April 1982) is a Bosnian politician who has served as a member of the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina since December 2022. She previously served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2018 to 2022. Since October 2025, she has been the president of Our Party.

Early life and education

Ćudić was born in Sarajevo in 1982. During the Bosnian War, she fled with her family to the United States, where she completed her secondary education, graduating from Skyline High School in Idaho Falls.[1] She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and international studies from Towson University in 2005. She later completed a master’s degree in human rights and democracy, jointly awarded by the University of Bologna and the University of Sarajevo.[2]

From 2005 to 2013, Ćudić worked at the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, where she served as a teaching assistant and later as a senior teaching assistant in political science.[3]

Political career

Ćudić joined the social-liberal Our Party in 2012 and later served as its vice-president.[4] In the same year, she ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Novo Sarajevo in the 2012 municipal elections.[5]

She was elected to the Sarajevo Canton Assembly in the 2014 general election.[1] In the 2018 general election, she was elected to the Federal House of Representatives, where she served until 2022.[4]

In the 2022 general election, Ćudić was elected to the national House of Representatives, receiving more than 20,000 votes.[6] Since March 2023, she has also been a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.[7]

In January 2025, acting on Ćudić’s initiative, Nebojša Radmanović of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) was removed from the collegium of the national House of Representatives.[8] In February 2025, the liberal alliance Troika, in cooperation with opposition parties from Republika Srpska, appointed Darko Babalj of the Serb Democratic Party as Radmanović’s replacement.[9]

Ćudić announced her candidacy for president of Our Party in September 2025, ahead of the party congress held on 11 October 2025.[10] At the congress, she was unanimously elected party leader, succeeding Edin Forto.[11]

Personal life

Ćudić married Kosovo-Albanian actor Alban Ukaj at New York City Hall in New York on 10 April 2014.[12] Their child, a boy named Nardis, was born in August 2015.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b "Sabina Ćudić". Imovina političara u Bosni i Hercegovini (in Bosnian). Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  2. ^ "Sabina Ćudić". javnarasprava.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Sabina Ćudić". Imovina političara u Bosni i Hercegovini (in Bosnian). Retrieved 20 December 2025.
  4. ^ a b "Sabina Ćudić". nasazemlja.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Lokalni izbori 2012: Utvrđeni rezultati". izbori.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  6. ^ D.Be. (7 November 2022). "Borenoviću najveća lična podrška u cijeloj BiH, prate ga Ćudić i Zvizdić" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  7. ^ "Sabina Ćudić". pace.coe.int. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  8. ^ House of Representatives votes to dismiss Nebojša Radmanović from parliamentary leadership role, 24 January 2025
  9. ^ N.V. (20 February 2025). "Darko Babalj izabran u rukovodsto Predstavničkog doma umjesto SNSD-ovog zastupnika, protiv bio DF" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 20 February 2025.
  10. ^ B.R. (13 September 2025). "Potvrđena kandidatura Sabine Ćudić za predsjednicu Naše stranke" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 13 September 2025.
  11. ^ D.H. (11 October 2025). "Sabina Ćudić je zvanično nova predsjednica NS: "Tražit ću čestitost, hrabrost i tvrdoglavi otpor primitivizmu"" (in Bosnian). Dnevni avaz. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
  12. ^ D.J. (1 February 2022). "Sabina Ćudić objavila rijetku fotografiju sa svog vjenčanja koje je održano u New Yorku" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  13. ^ "Ponosna majka Sabina Ćudić pokazala sina Nardisa i priznala..." depo.ba (in Bosnian). 14 December 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2015.