Behgjet Pacolli
| Behgjet Pacolli | |
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Behgjet Pacolli in 2015
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| 1st Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo | |
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In office 15 April 2011 – 9 December 2014 |
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| President | Atifete Jahjaga |
| Prime Minister | Hashim Thaçi |
| Preceded by | Hajredin Kuçi |
| Succeeded by | Hashim Thaçi |
| 3rd President of Kosovo | |
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In office 22 February 2011 – 4 April 2011 |
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| Prime Minister | Hashim Thaçi |
| Preceded by | Jakup Krasniqi (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Jakup Krasniqi (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
30 August 1951 Marevcë (near Pristina), FPR Yugoslavia |
| Political party | New Kosovo Alliance (Before and after during the presidency in 2011) |
| Other political affiliations |
Independent (during the presidency in 2011) |
| Spouse(s) |
Anna Oxa (1999–2002) Masha Pacolli |
| Religion | Islam |
Behgjet Isa Pacolli (born 30 August 1951; Albanian pronunciation: [bɛhˈɟɛt päˈt͡so:ɫɪ]) is a former President of the Republic of Kosovo, and First Deputy Prime Minister in the cabinet of Hashim Thaçi in which he served until the formation of the new government on 9 December 2014. Pacolli was one of the signatories of 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence.
On 30 March 2011 the Constitutional Court of Kosovo declared that the constitution was broken during his election as President and he was no longer President of the Republic of Kosovo, with immediate effect. Pacolli stated that he respected the decision of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo and that he would not offer his resignation but he would leave his offices from 30 March 2011.
He is the President and CEO of Mabetex Group, a Swiss-based construction and civil-engineering company. Pacolli was also the President of the third biggest political party in Kosovo the New Kosovo Alliance. For the past four years, he has been involved in Kosovar politics. He is believed to be the world's richest ethnic Albanian.
Behgjet was the second of a family of 10 children who grew up, like most in Kosovo at the time, in the poor countryside. Similarly to thousands of other ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, Pacolli moved to Western Europe in search of job opportunities.
As a young man, Pacolli contacted companies throughout Austria and Germany seeking work and, soon after his release, he joined an Austrian company, for which he worked as a sales representative for Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Poland and Russia. Two years later, he moved to Switzerland and joined a Swiss company he had gotten to know in Moscow.
Behgjet Pacolli is the son of Isa and Nazmije. He is Kosovo Albanian by ethnicity but has Swiss citizenship as well. In the 1970s, he emigrated to Hamburg, West Germany, where he achieved a bachelor's degree in Economics, specializing in Marketing and Management. In 1974, he completed his military service in the Yugoslav army and returned to Kosovo. In 1976, Pacolli moved to Switzerland where he became one of the top managers of Interplastica, an engineering company cooperating with the countries of the Soviet bloc.
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