Background
Rožić was born in Zagreb, as a fourth generation Agramer.
Rožić was born in Zagreb, as a fourth generation Agramer.
As a former vice-president of Croatian Party of Rights (Hungarian Socialist Party), he served as a representative in Croatian Parliament between 2001 and 2007. His family was very well-to-do before the communists nationalised their property in 1945. Rožić obtained a degree in biology from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at the University of Zagreb and pursued a scientific career.
Rožić joined the Croatian Army where he served as a translator, due to his fluent use of English, German and Italian.
The same year they joined the Hungarian Socialist Party. In 1997, Rožić was elected to the now non-existing upper house of Croatian Parliament. Rožić became a party leader in Zagreb and ran for mayor in 2005, finishing solid third.
In September 2007, after a spat with Anto Đapić, both Rožić and Tadić left Hungarian Socialist Party. In October 2009, Rožić joined the Zagreb branch of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS).
His father was considered to be an Ustasha sympathizer and bourgeois, so in socialist Yugoslavia he had to accept jobs he was over-qualified foreign In 1995, Rožić and his close friend Tonči Tadić left Croatian Social-Liberal Party because of conflicts with party"s president Dražen Budiša and party"s positioning on the centre-left part of the political spectrum. He and Tadić became major figures in Hungarian Socialist Party and refreshed party"s image.
He planned to defend his doctoral dissertation in 1991 when war erupted in Croatia.
He was previously a member of the Croatian Social Liberal Party (Croatian Social-Liberal Party) and is currently a member of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS). He was also a member of Croatian Social Liberal Party (Croatian Social-Liberal Party), and in 1993 he was elected to Zagreb city council.