Zagreb - Only three candidates have submitted applications for the post of the country's third Information Commissioner, and current Information Commissioner Zoran Pičuljan is not among them, even though under the relevant law, he could have applied for another term in office. The process of electing the Information Commissioner through a public call is carried out by the Committee on the Constitution, Standing Orders and Political System, and the decision is made by the Parliament.
The applications were submitted by Dubravka Bevandić, head of the Service for the Protection of the Right to Access Information, HRT public broadcaster journalist and editor Nikola Kristić, and the head of the Justice and Public Administration Ministry's Directorate for the Political System and General Administration, Anita Markić.
All the candidates have a degree in law.
The new candidate should be elected by November, when Pičuljan's five-year term expires. The parliament is most likely to do it at its autumn session, which starts on 15 September.