Shaip Kamberi

Shaip Kamberi (Serbian: Шаип Камбери / Šaip Kamberi; born 15 October 1964) is a Serbian politician of Albanian ethnicity who is currently a member of the National Assembly.[1] Previously, he has served as the president of the Municipality of Bujanovac from 2008 to 2012 and from 2016 to 2020.[2] He is the president of the Party for Democratic Action (PDD), an Albanian minority political party in Serbia.[3]

MP

Shaip Kamberi
Шаип Камбери
President of the Municipality of Bujanovac
In office
2008–2012
In office
2016–2020
Personal details
Born (1964-10-15) 15 October 1964
Veliki Trnovac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political partyParty for Democratic Action
Alma materUniversity of Priština

Early life and career

Kamberi was born in 1964 to an Albanian family in Veliki Trnovac which at the time was a part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.[4]

He completed middle and high school in Veliki Trnovac and Bujanovac and later he studied at the Faculty of Law at the University of Priština. He graduated in 1989.[5]

From 2000 to 2008, he was the correspondent of the daily paper in Kosovo[lower-alpha 1] "Zëri", while in 2011 he was a participant in the project of a study visit to the US Department of State (International Visitor's Program), which is implemented through the US Embassy in Belgrade. He was the founder of the NGO "Committee for Human Rights", which was established for monitoring, promotion and protection of human rights. He was the leader of the Human Rights Committee until 2008.[5]

Political career

During the period from 2002 to 2006 and 2006-2008, he served as a member of the Municipal Assembly of Bujanovac and he was also the head of the group of the Party for Democratic Action in the Bujanovac assembly.[5]

As a PDD candidate in the local elections held in 2008, he was elected president of the Municipality of Bujanovac and he performed that function until 2012.[5]

In the 2014 parliamentary elections, Shaip Kamberi was elected a member of the National Assembly, a position he held until 2016 when he got elected president of the Municipality of Bujanovac again.[5]

In October 2018, Kamberi was elected president of the Party for Democratic Action.[3]

In the 2020 parliamentary elections, Kamberi was elected once again a member of the National Assembly.[1]

Notes and references
  1. Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008. Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 98 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 113 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.
  1. "Narodna skupština Republike Srbije | Narodni poslanik". www.parlament.gov.rs. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  2. https://www.juznevesti.com. "Šaip Kamberi". Južne vesti (in Serbian). Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  3. Jugpress, Postavio (6 October 2018). "Šaip Kamberi novi predsednik PDD". JUGPRESS (in Bosnian). Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  4. vhiski, About the Author /. "Shaip Kamberi". Општина Бујановац (in Serbian). Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  5. "Bujanovac: Predsednik opštine - Šaip Kamberi". Bujanovac (in Serbian). 2 January 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
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