Xhelal Canziba
politician from Kosovo
Xhelal Canziba (born 19 July 1958) is a politician in Kosovo. He was active in Kosovo's parallel institutions in the 1990s and served in the Assembly of Kosovo from 2002 to 2007 as a member of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK).
Early life and private career
Canziba was born to an Albanian family in Rahovec, in what was then the Autonomous Region of Kosovo and Metohija in the People's Republic of Serbia, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated in geodesy and is known as an expert in the field.
Politician
Parallel institutions during the 1990s
During the 1990s, most members of the Kosovo Albanian community boycotted Serbian state institutions and took part in parallel governing structures. Canziba was elected to the parallel Kosovo Albanian parliament in the 1992 general election and was recognized as the leader of a parallel municipal authority in Rahovec. At the time, he was a member of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). He was imprisoned by Serbian authorities for a time in the 1990s.
Since 2000
Canziba received the twenty-eighth position on the Democratic Party of Kosovo's electoral list in the 2001 Kosovan parliamentary election, which was held under closed list proportional representation, and narrowly missed direct election when the list won twenty-six seats. Three members of the PDK's delegation resigned from the assembly in March 2002 after being appointed as cabinet ministers, and Canziba was able to enter the assembly as a replacement.
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