Arbën Xhaferi

Arbën Xhaferi ( Macedonian Арбен Џафери Arben Džaferi ; born January 24, 1948 in Tetovo ; † August 15, 2012 in Skopje ) was a Macedonian politician of Albanian ethnicity who was a member of the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia for 18 years until his death and between 1997 and 2007 chairman of the Albanian Democratic Party (PDSH) .

Life

Xhaferi, who studied philosophy at the University of Belgrade , originally worked as a journalist and worked for the radio and television station in Kosovo , where he was editor-in-chief of the cultural program in Pristina until 1990 . In 1994 he was elected for the first time as a candidate for the Democratic Prosperity Party (PPD) to the parliament of the Republic of Macedonia and was a member of it until his death.

After he was chairman of the PPD between 1995 and 1997, he was one of the founders of the Albanian Democratic Party, which resulted from a merger of the PPD and the People's Democratic Party ( Partia Popullore Demokratie ), and was elected its first chairman. In this capacity, after the unrest between the Macedonian majority and the Albanian minority, he was one of the signatories of the Ohrid Framework Agreement , which was concluded on August 13, 2001 between the two largest (Slavic) Macedonian and the two large Albanian parties of Macedonia and one to ensure adequate representation of the Albanian minority in politics and administration. When the agreement was signed, he made his speech in Albanian in order to underline the rights enshrined in the agreement.

In June 2007, Xhaferi resigned from his position as chairman of the PDSH because of a Parkinson's disease diagnosed with him and handed this position over to the previous deputy party chairman Menduh Thaçi . At the beginning of August 2012 he suffered a stroke and died a week later from its consequences. Xhaferi was buried in his native Tetovo, where hundreds of people remembered him after the funeral ceremony in the Palace of Culture.

Xhaferi left behind his wife, Violeta Xhaferi, and his two children, Vlora and Ilir.

literature

• Thede Kahl, Izer Maksuti, Albert Ramaj: The Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia . Facts, analyzes, opinions on interethnic coexistence. In: Viennese Eastern European Studies . tape 23 . Lit Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-7000-0584-9 , ISSN  0946-7246 , Before the storm: Macedonia's Albanians at the end of the 20th century, p. 80-102 .

Web links

• Shuhet Arbën Xhaferi, rilindësi i fundit . Shqip from August 16, 2012 (Albanian)
• Umro bivši lider Albanaca u Makedoniji (Serbian)
• Shqiptarët përcjellin Arbën Xhaferin . Panorama from August 17, 2012 (Albanian)
• Nga kritika e filmit në politikë . Shekulli from August 16, 2012 (Albanian)