He and his wife Sanda were married in a hospital bed in 1992, in the intensive care unit, after being wounded by the same grenade.
[1] After the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he worked as secretary for information in the Social Democratic Party, and as the head of the Office of the President of the Federation of BiH entity, Karlo Filipović.
[1] In May 2018 Pudarić submitted his candidacy for the 2018 elections as member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Serb people.
[1] In December 2020, on the basis of the Sejdić and Finci case law and of the specular case of Ilijaz Pilav, decided in 2016, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg recognised a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights by Bosnia and Herzegovina against Pudarić.
The Court also noted that it is not the Constitution of BiH but its electoral law that introduces a requirement of residence for the candidates to the BiH Presidency; the Court noted that "no legal provision of domestic law should be interpreted and applied in a manner incompatible with States’ obligations under the Convention", particularly since the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina grants “priority over all other law” to the European Convention on Human Rights.