Ali Ahmeti
Ali Ahmeti (born January 4, 1959 in Zajas , SR Macedonia , Yugoslavia ) has been party leader of the Albanian party Bashkimi Demokratie për Integrim (BDI) in North Macedonia since it was founded . He was also the political leader of the Macedonian UÇK ( Albanian Ushtria Çlirimtare Kombëtare , UÇK ) during the Albanian uprising in Macedonia in 2001 . Between 2008 and 2011 his party participated in the government under Nikola Gruevski .
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Ali Ahmeti grew up in rural Zajas , which is mostly inhabited by Albanians , not far from Kičevo . Between 1979 and 1983 he studied philosophy at the University of Prishtina in Kosovo . Between 1981 and 1983 he was also one of the leaders of a nationalist student movement in Kosovo. Because of these activities, Ahmeti was arrested by the Serbian and Yugoslav authorities and served a one-year sentence. In 1986 he got political asylum in Switzerland and lived there until 2001. In 1988/89 he was one of the organizers of the student and mine worker protests in Kosovo. In 1996 he was a co-founder of the UÇK of Kosovo.
In 2001 Ahmeti was elected as commander in chief and representative of the UÇK in Macedonia and declared a persona non grata in Switzerland . The USA put him on their "black list".
After the Ohrid Framework Agreement was signed , the UÇK in Macedonia officially dissolved and its successor organization, the political party BDI, was involved in the subsequent process of fulfilling the criteria of the agreement. In the 2002 parliamentary elections, the DUI won 16 out of 120 seats and entered into a coalition with the Social Democrats .
In the parliamentary elections in 2008 , the BDI was able to win two more seats and then formed a government coalition with the VMRO-DPMNE under Nikola Gruevski .
Web links
- Ali Ahmeti in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ahmeti, Ali |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Macedonian politician (BDI) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th January 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zajas , SR Macedonia , Yugoslavia |