Fatmir Xhafaj

Fatmir Xhafaj
Fatmir Xhafaj; MP
Member of the Albanian Parliament; for Tirana
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 25 June 2017
Ministry of Internal Affairs
	In office; March 12, 2017 – May 22, 2017
Prime Minister	Edi Rama
Preceded by	Saimir Tahiri
Succeeded by	Dritan Demiraj
	In office; September 16, 2017 – November 6, 2018
Prime Minister	Edi Rama
Preceded by	Dritan Demiraj
Succeeded by	Sandër Lleshaj
Personal details
Born	May 17, 1959; Vlorë
Nationality	Albanian
Political party	Socialist
Alma mater	University of Tirana
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Fatmir Xhafaj (born 17 May 1959, in Vlorë) is an Albanian politician, chair of the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the Judicial System Reform of the Parliament of Albania. He served as the Albanian Minister of Interior Affairs from 2017 to 2018.

Education

Xhafaj graduated in Legal and Political Sciences (Justice) at the University of Tirana in 1982. He then worked as a lawyer (Judicial Adviser, Judge, Prosecutor), as well as high level functionary for various youth and social organizations in 1982-1986. [1]

He then served as legal advisor for a consultancy company in 1994-1997, and was a freelance professional lawyer and law firm founding partner in 1999-2001.

Political career

Xhafaj is member of the Socialist Party of Albania since 1991, and has been Secretary for Legal Matters of the party in 2005-2011 and Coordination Secretary since 2011. He is also member of the Headship of the party since 2007.

Xhafaj has been an elected MP for the Socialist Party of Albania, representing the Tirana County, from the V to the VIII legislatures (since 2001). He has co-chaired the Ad Hoc Committee for the Electoral Reform in 2003, 2007 and 2009, and was deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Legal Issues, Public Administration and Human Rights in 2009-2013. Since September 2013 he chairs the Parliamentary Committee for Legal Issues, Public Administration and Human Rights, and since November 2014 also the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the Judicial System Reform.

As a member of the Government of Albania, Mr. Xhafaj was General Secretary of the Council of Ministers from 1997 to 1999, as well as Minister for Territorial Regulation and Tourism in 2002, and Minister of Justice from 2003 to 2005.

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References

Fatmir Xhafaj Archived 2016-03-15 at the Wayback Machine, PS.AL

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[1] Fatmir Xhafaj Archived 2016-03-15 at the Wayback Machine, PS.AL