Trajko Veljanovski (born 2 November 1962) is a Macedonian politician who was the President of the Assembly of North Macedonia from 2008 to 2017. He was graduated from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University working as a

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until 1999.

Politics

He started in politics in 1993 by joining

VMRO-DPMNE Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity ( mk, Внатрешна македонска револуционерна организација – Демократска партија за ...

. He was elected Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Justice in the

Macedonian Parliament The Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia ( mk, Собрание на Република Северна Македонија, sq, Kuvendi i Republikës së Maqedonisë së Veriut), or the Sobranie ( mk, Собрание, "Assembly"), is t ...

in 1999, then became Deputy Minister in the same ministry. In the 2006 elections he was elected Member of the Assembly. In the 2008 elections he was re-elected and became the

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of the

Macedonian parliament The Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia ( mk, Собрание на Република Северна Македонија, sq, Kuvendi i Republikës së Maqedonisë së Veriut), or the Sobranie ( mk, Собрание, "Assembly"), is t ...

Arrest and conviction for the Macedonian Parliament storming

On 2019, Veljanoski was arrested and questioned for his role in the

2017 storming of Macedonian Parliament Storming of the Macedonian Parliament, also known as Bloody Thursday ( mk, Крвав четврток, Krvav četvrtok) occurred on 27 April 2017, when about 200 Macedonian nationalists (some of whom were members and sympathizers of VMRO-DPMNE) ...

. Two years later, he was convicted as an organizer of the storming and sentenced to over 6 years in prison.

References

1962 births Living people Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje alumni Macedonian lawyers VMRO-DPMNE politicians Speakers of the Assembly of North Macedonia {{NorthMacedonia-politician-stub