Shpend Ahmeti

Shpend Ahmeti (born April 18, 1978 in Pristina , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Kosovar Albanian politician ( LVV ). He has been mayor of his native Pristina since December 2013 .

education

Shpend Ahmeti studied business administration and economics at the American University in Bulgaria in Blagoevgrad between 1996 and 2000 . There he was also a senator between 1999 and 2002 and later chairman of the university's collegial body.

Ahmeti continued his studies in the United States . He graduated with a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University with a focus on Economic and Political Development. Since 2005 he has been a lecturer in Public Policy and International Economic Policy at the American University in Kosovo .

Political career

On November 5, 2010, Shpend Ahmeti, together with Ilir Deda and other Harvard University graduates, founded the Fryma e Re party , which took part in the parliamentary elections in Kosovo 2010/2011 but was unable to pass the five percent hurdle. On March 31, 2011, Fryma e Re merged with the citizens' movement Vetëvendosje! (VV). Ahmeti became the deputy party chairman of the VV.

In the local elections in Kosovo in 2013, Shpend Ahmeti ran as a candidate against Isa Mustafa ( LDK ), the long-time mayor of the Kosovar capital. The turnout in Pristina was 50.8 percent and in the first round of elections on November 3, neither of the two achieved the necessary majority, so that a second round was ordered for December 1. In this case, Ahmeti was able to win 51.8 percent of the votes and thus achieve the majority. The city's new mayor was sworn in on December 26th, heralding the end of the 15-year era of the Partia Demokratike e Kosovës in the capital. After taking office, Ahmeti resigned from his post as vice chairman of the VV.

Private

Shpend Ahmeti is married to Ardiana Gjinolli-Ahmeti. They are parents of their daughter Tea and their son Anri. In addition to Albanian, he also speaks fluent English , Serbo-Croatian , Macedonian and Bulgarian . He also has knowledge of German .

Web links

• Information on education and private life on the official website of the election campaign for Pristina 2013 ( Memento from October 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Albanian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics on the local elections in Kosovo 2013. (No longer available online.) In: Central Election Commission. Archived from the original on February 23, 2014 ; Retrieved February 8, 2014 (Albanian, PDF file, 152 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Results of the local elections in Kosovo 2013. (No longer available online.) In: Central Election Commission. Archived from the original on January 3, 2014 ; Retrieved February 8, 2014 (Albanian, PDF file, 237 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Results of the second round of local elections in Kosovo in 2013. (No longer available online.) In: Central Election Commission. Archived from the original on February 23, 2014 ; Retrieved February 8, 2014 (Albanian, PDF file, 178 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Vetëvendosja fiton Prishtinën, Shpend Ahmeti me lot në sy, ndërsa kryeqyteti feston (Vetëvendosje! Wins Pristina, Shpend Ahmeti with tears in his eyes while the capital celebrates). (No longer available online.) In: Shekulli . December 1, 2013, archived from the original on February 5, 2014 ; Retrieved February 8, 2014 (Albanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Thomas Fuster: Victory of a Protest Party - Political Earthquake in Pristina. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 3, 2013, accessed February 8, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Betohet Shpend Ahmeti, si Kryetar i Komunës së Prishtinës (Shpend Ahmeti is sworn in as mayor of the large municipality of Pristina). (No longer available online.) In: Official website of the municipality of Pristina. December 26, 2013, archived from the original on April 1, 2017 ; Retrieved February 8, 2014 (Albanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.