Besim Muzaqi

Besim Muzaqi (born 5 December 1979) is a politician in Kosovo.[lower-alpha 1] He was the deputy mayor of Vushtrri (Serbian: Vučitrn) from 2017 to 2021 and has been a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo since 2021. Muzaqi is a member of Vetëvendosje.

Early life and private career

Muzaqi was born in Mitrovica in what was then the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo in the Socialist Republic of Serbia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Raised in Vushtrri, he graduated from the University of Pristina with a master's degree from the Faculty of Pharmacy. He later earned a second master's degree in Food Engineering and Technology (2014). Muzaqi has served one term as president of the Kosovo Pharmaceutical Association.[1]

Politician

Muzaqi joined Vetëvendosje in 2010 and has served on the party's presidency.[2] He was included on the party's electoral list for the Vushtrri municipal assembly in the 2013 Kosovan local elections and its list for the Kosovo assembly in 2014 parliamentary election, although he was not elected on either occasion.[3][4]

He was the Vetëvendosje candidate for mayor of Vushtrri in the 2017 Kosovan local elections and finished third. His party participated in a local coalition government after the election, and he was appointed as the municipality's deputy mayor in December 2017.[5] He ran for the Kosovo assembly again in the 2019 assembly election and was again not elected.[6]

Parliamentarian

Muzaqi was given the thirty-second position on Vetëvendosje's list in the 2021 assembly election, which was held under open list proportional representation. He finished in fifty-sixth place among the party's candidates and was elected when the list won fifty-eight mandates.[7] Vetëvendosje won a significant victory in the election and subsequently became the dominant force in a coalition government; Muzaqi serves as a supporter of the administration. He is a member of the assembly committee on public administration, local government, media, and regional development.[8]

Electoral record

Local
2017 Municipality of Vushtrri local election
Mayor of Vushtrri[9]
Candidate Party Votes  % Votes  %
Xhafer Tahiri Democratic League of Kosovo 7,842 25.64 15,122 54.24
Ferit Idrizi Democratic Party of Kosovo 10,184 33.29 12,758 45.76
Besim Muzaqi Lëvizja Vetëvendosje! 7,679 25.10
Nasuf Aliu New Kosovo Alliance 2,442 7.98
Lutfi Bilalli Alliance for the Future of Kosovo 1,591 5.20
Abdullah Vojvoda Initiative for Kosovo 852 2.79
Total valid votes 30,590 100 27,880 100

Notes
  1. The political status of Kosovo is disputed. Having unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008, Kosovo is formally recognised as a sovereign state by 101 UN member states (with another 13 states recognising it at some point but then withdrawing their recognition) and 92 states not recognizing it, while Serbia continues to claim it as a part of its own territory.

References
  1. Besim Muzaqi, Vetëvendosje!, accessed 20 January 2022.
  2. Besim Muzaqi, Vetëvendosje!, accessed 20 January 2022.
  3. Muzaqi appeared in the fourth position on the Vetëvendosje list for Vushtrri in the 2013 election, which was held under open list proportional representation. He received the ninth most votes of the party's candidates; the list won three seats and he was not returned. See ZGJEDHJET PËR KUVENDIN KOMUNAL 2013 – REZULTATET PËRFUNDIMTARE NGA QNR, Komisioni Qendror i Zgjedhjeve, p. 280.
  4. In the 2014 assembly election, Muzaqi was given the fifty-eighth position on the Vetëvendosje list and placed fifty-first among the party's candidates. The list won sixteen seats; he was not returned. See ZGJEDHJET PËR KUVENDIN E KOSOVËS 2014 – REZULTATET PËRFUNDIMTARE NGA QNR, Komisioni Qendror i Zgjedhjeve, p. 7.
  5. Lajmet, Archived 2018-01-15 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Vishtrri, accessed 20 January 2022.
  6. In 2019, Muzaqi was given the forty-ninth position on the party's list and finished in fifty-fourth place among party candidates. The list won twenty-nine seats. See p. ZGJEDHJET PËR KUVENDIN E KOSOVËS 2019 – REZULTATET PËRFUNDIMTARE, Komisioni Qendror i Zgjedhjeve, p. 25.
  7. ZGJEDHJET PËR KUVENDIN E KOSOVËS 2021 – REZULTATET PËRFUNDIMTARE NGA QNR, Komisioni Qendror i Zgjedhjeve, p. 4.
  8. Besim Muzaqi, Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo, accessed 20 January 2022.
  9. ZGJEDHJET LOKALE 2017 – REZULTATET PËRFUNDIMTARE NGA QNR KONAČNI REZULTATI IZ CPR (first round), Komisioni Qendror i Zgjedhjeve, p. 28; ZGJEDHJET LOKALE 2017 – REZULTATET PËRFUNDIMTARE NGA QNR KONAČNI REZULTATI IZ CPR (second round), p. 18.
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