Gent Strazimiri | |
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Member of the Albanian parliament | |
Assumed office 2009 |
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Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs | |
In office 2007–2009 |
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Preceded by | Ferdinand Poni |
Succeeded by | Avenir Peka |
Personal details | |
Born |
Gent Hysen Strazimiri 6 October 1972 Tirana, Albania |
Nationality | Albanian |
Political party | Democratic Party |
Residence | Tirana, Albania |
Alma mater | University of Tirana |
Committees | Legal Affairs, Public Administration and Human Rights, Education and Public Information |
Gent Hysen Strazimiri (Albanian: [ˈɡɛnt straziˈmiɾi], born 6 October 1972) is a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania for the Democratic Party of Albania (DP). He was Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs from 2007 to 2009. Strazimiri is also member of the committee on Legal Affairs, Public Administration and Human Rights and Committee on Education and Public Information.
Stazimiri is since 2009 the deputy leader of the DP in the Albanian parliament.
Strazimiri was born in Tirana, where he followed the Qemal Stafa High School. Strazimiri became a member of the DP in 1990, this was during the fall of communism in Albania. On 1992 Strazimiri finished the faculty of Law, and graduated on the University of Tirana. He entered the race with several years of political experience in the management structures of the DP and the fight against crime and trafficking in his post as Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs, which he held from 2007 until 2009. He has been from 2007 until 2009 member of the City Council of Tirana.
Strazimiri became a member of the DP in 1990, this was during the fall of communism in Albania. During 1996 and 1998 he became vice head of Forumi Rinor i Partise Demokratike (FRPD) in Tirana, and became a member of the national democratic council and of FRPD. From 1998 until 2000 he was the chairman of FRPD. In 2001 he was the spokesperson of the opposition coalition Union for Victory Coalition, which included DP, Liberal Democratic Union, Movement of Legality Party, National Front and the Republican Party of Albania. During 2002 and 2005 he was the advisor to the president of the DP. From 2005 till 2009 he was the secretary of DP, and in 2009 he was chosen as member of parliament from the voting district Tirana.