Fadil Nura

Fadil Nura (born 4 March 1979) is a politician in Kosovo.[lower-alpha 1] He was a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo from 2020 to 2021 and has been the mayor of Skenderaj since 2021. Nura is a member of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (Partia Demokratike e Kosovës, PDK).

Fadil Nura
Mayor of Skenderaj
Assumed office
2 November 2021
PresidentGlauk Konjufca (acting)
Vjosa Osmani
Preceded byBekim Jashari
In office
3 February 2020 – 3 June 2020
PDK
In office
19 November 2019 – -
Personal details
Born (1979-03-04) 4 March 1979
Prelloc, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Kosovo)
NationalityKosovan
Albanian
Political partyPDK
Children2
EducationUniversity of Pristina
Military service
Political representativeKosovo Liberation Army

Early life and career

Nura was born in the village of Prelloc in the municipality of Skenderaj, in what was then the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo in the Socialist Republic of Serbia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Pristina's Faculty of Law in 2005 and earned a master's degree from the same institution in 2008, focusing on administrative-constitutional sciences. From 2008 to 2010, he was director of the administrative and staff department in Skenderaj.[1]

Politician

Nura served as vice-mayor of Skenderaj from 2011 to 2014 and was the municipality's acting mayor from 2014 to 2017.[2] He became deputy minister of justice in the Government of Kosovo in 2018 and served in this role for a time.

Assembly member

Nura was included on the PDK's electoral list for the 2019 Kosovan parliamentary election, which was conducted under open list proportional representation. He finished eighteenth among PDK candidates; the list won twenty-four seats, and he would have been elected had the mandates been assigned by vote totals alone. Because of a requirement for one-third female representation, however, he did not initially receive a seat.[3][4]

He was awarded an assembly seat on 19 November 2020 as a replacement for party leader Kadri Veseli, who resigned from parliament after being indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Kosovo War.[5] The rival Democratic League of Kosovo (Lidhja Demokratike e Kosovës, LDK) oversaw a coalition government during this time, and Nura served as a member of the opposition.

Nura was again included on the PDK's list for the 2021 Kosovan parliamentary election. He placed sixteenth among PDK candidates and was this time re-elected when the list won nineteen mandates.[6] Vetëvendosje won the election, and Nura again served in opposition.

Mayor of Skenderaj

Nura later ran against incumbent Skenderaj mayor Bekim Jashari in the 2021 Kosovan local elections. During the campaign, Nura said that he had campaigned for Jashari in the previous local elections in 2017 and that the PDK had refrained from fielding a candidate against him on that occasion. He also said, however, that Skenderaj had stagnated under Jashari's leadership and that the municipality needed "protectionism, not dilettantism."[7] He was successful, defeating Jashari in the first round of voting.

After winning the mayoral election, Nura resigned from the Kosovo assembly on 2 November 2021.[8]

Electoral record

Local
2021 Municipality of Skenderaj local election
Mayor of Skenderaj[9]
Candidate Party Votes  %
Fadil Nura Democratic Party of Kosovo 13,123 57.89
Bekim Jashari (incumbent) Independent List Bekim Jashari 9,236 40.74
Sokol Halili Civic Group: For Skenderaj 311 1.37
Total valid votes 22,670 100

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. Fadil Nura, Minister of Justice, Republic of Kosovo, accessed 13 January 2022.
  2. Fadil Nura, Minister of Justice, Republic of Kosovo, accessed 13 January 2022.
  3. "25 deputetët e ardhshëm të PDK-së në Kuvendin e Kosovës", Telegrafi, 7 November 2019, accessed 13 January 2022. The article's title is erroneous; the PDK list won twenty-four seats.
  4. ZGJEDHJET E PARAKOHSHME PËR KUVENDIN E REPUBLIKËS SË KOSOVËS 2019 – Rezultatet e Statistikat (Ndarja e ulëseve në Kuvend (Subjektet dhe kandidatët e zgjedhur) and ZGJEDHJET E PARAKOHSHME PËR KUVENDIN E REPUBLIKËS SË KOSOVËS 2019 – Rezultatet e Statistikat (Rezultatet e të gjithë kandidatëve (renditja si në fletëvotim)), Komisioni Qendror i Zgjedhjeve, accessed 13 January 2022. Nura received the sixty-second position on the party's list.
  5. "Fadil Nura deputeti i ri i PDK-së në Kuvend, zëvendëson Kadri Veselin", Telegrafi, 19 November 2020, accessed 13 January 2022.
  6. ZGJEDHJET E PARAKOHSHME PËR KUVENDIN E REPUBLIKËS SË KOSOVËS 2021 – Rezultatet e Statistikat (Ndarja e ulëseve në Kuvend (Subjektet dhe kandidatët e zgjedhur) and ZGJEDHJET E PARAKOHSHME PËR KUVENDIN E REPUBLIKËS SË KOSOVËS 2021 – Rezultatet e Statistikat (Rezultatet e të gjithë kandidatëve (renditja si në fletëvotim)), Komisioni Qendror i Zgjedhjeve, accessed 13 January 2022. On this occasion Nura received the fiftieth position on the PDK list.
  7. "LAJME Fadil Nura: Bekim Jashari e refuzoi emblemën e PDK-së, pas 17 tetorit do të jem kryetar", In Fokus, 10 October 2021, accessed 13 January 2022.
  8. "Fadil Nura jep dorëheqje nga pozita e deputetit", Telegrafi, 2 November 2021, accessed 13 January 2022.
  9. ZGJEDHJET PËR KRYETARË TË KOMUNAVE 2021 – Rezultatet e Statistikat (Raundi i parë), Komisioni Qendror i Zgjedhjeve, accessed 12 January 2022.
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