Riza Halimi ( sr-cyr, Риза Халими; born 16 September 1947) is a Serbian politician. An ethnic

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, he was the president of the

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from its foundation until 2018, and now serves as the honorary president of the party.

Life

After his education as a

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, he started teaching physics in high school. In March 2000, he was sentenced to three months in prison, and to a one-year probation sentence for obstructing a police officer from performance of his duties on at a protest by the citizens of

Preševo Preševo ( sr-cyrl, Прешево; sq, Preshevë, ) is a town and municipality located in the Pčinja District of southern Serbia. It is the southernmost town in Central Serbia and largest in the geographical region of Preševo Valley. Preševo ...

over the Drenica massacre. He was elected a member of the

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three times. He was the president of the assembly of the municipality of Preševo. He was the only member of the Coalition of Albanians of the Preševo Valley in the assembly from 2008 and 2012. In April 2013, he supported the signing of the Brussels Agreement between

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and

Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...

. In the

2014 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 16 March 2014, with nineteen electoral lists competing for 250 members of the National Assembly. The election was called early, after tensions in the coalition led by the ruling Serbian Progressive P ...

, his Party for Democratic Action won two seats in Parliament. His Party for Democratic Action formed a parliamentary club together with the Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak. In 2018, he stepped down as the president of the party, and now serves as the honorary president.

References

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