Lulzim Basha

Xhelal Lulzim Basha ( [ lulzim baʃa ]; born June 12, 1974 in Tirana) is an Albanian politician and since 2013 Chairman of the Democratic Party of Albania (PD). Since 2012 he also held the mayor of Tirana.

Origin and background

Lulzim Basha was born the son of a mechanic Xhelal and the teacher Remzije Basha. He attended primary school Skënder CACI in the northeast of Tirana and entered it on to high school Sami Frashëri. At this time, Basha was also a player on the volleyball club Dinamo. He graduated from high school in 1992, as was in Albania just the dictatorial system of government has been overthrown and a new era began for the country.

With a one-year scholarship he started in 1993 to study law at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. To continue the study of law, he earned money by the way as a financial consultant in private companies.

After his time in Utrecht, he worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. During this time he was involved in the drafting of the indictment against the former President of Serbia, Slobodan Milošević. For gathering evidence he stayed for three years in Kosovo. Subsequently, he was there between 2000 and 2005 the United Nations staff and helped build the Kosovo Ministry of Justice.

Beginnings in the Democratic Party

In January 2005, Basha member of the Democratic Party of Albania, and in May 2005 Member of the presidium. During the campaign for the 2005 general election he was involved as a party spokesman instrumental in the success of the party and was himself also to the members of the Kuvendi i Shqipërisë elected in the elections on 3 July 2005.

After the elections, Basha was initially appointed by Prime Minister Sali Berisha in his first cabinet as Minister of Public Works, Transport and Telecommunications. During his time as Minister of Transport Basha and the government could show some success. So he opened new roads, highways and ports, which are for the country of great importance.

On 2 May 2007 he was appointed as the successor of Besnik Mustafaj foreign minister and represented as together with Prime Minister Sali Berisha of Albania, at the NATO meeting in Bucharest, where the land is officially the invitation to join received, which was full of leads a year later.

Basha was up to the next parliamentary elections in June 2009, Secretary of State, after which he was appointed in the second cabinet of Sali Berisha September 9, 2009 Secretary of the Interior.

Mayor of Tirana and election as party chairman

In the spring of 2011, he ceded his post at Bujar Nishani, as he ran for mayor of Tirana in the local elections in May 2011. As a Democratic candidate in the capital he kicked the longtime mayor Edi Rama (PS ). The end result meant for Basha with 81 votes ahead of incumbent Edi Rama an extremely narrow victory. This sparked the Basha since 2000 ruling in the city administration Edi Rama from.

In the parliamentary elections of 2013, the Democrats were subject under Berisha clearly the opposition Socialists, who will provide you with their leader Edi Rama as Prime Minister of the future government of Albania. Sali Berisha was after the election his resignation as a government and as a party leader known.

On July 23, 2013 Lulzim Basha was elected by the party members of the PD as the new Chairman. He sat down with it against Sokol Olldashi by, who had also been included in the vote.

Private

Lulzim Basha is married to Aurela Basha since 2004. In 2006, the two parents of Dafina.