Aldo Bumçi

Aldo Bumçi
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 4 April 2013 – 15 September 2013
Prime Minister	Sali Berisha
Preceded by	Edmond Panariti
Succeeded by	Ditmir Bushati
Minister of Tourism, Cultural Affairs, Youth and Sports
In office 2011 – 4 April 2013
Preceded by	Ferdinand Xhaferraj
Succeeded by	Visar Zhiti
Member of the Albanian parliament
In office 2005–2019
Minister of Justice
In office 2005–2007
Preceded by	Fatmir Xhafaj
Succeeded by	Enkelejd Alibeaj
Personal details
Born	Aldo Tonin Bumçi (1974-06-11) 11 June 1974 (age 50) Tirana, Albania
Political party	Democratic Party
Spouse	Ilda Zhulali
Children	David Bumci
Residence(s)	Tirana, Albania
Alma mater	Bilkent University
Committees	Committee on Legal Affairs, Public Administration and Human Rights Committee on European Integration
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Aldo Tonin Bumçi (born 11 June 1974) is a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania for the Democratic Party of Albania.[1][2] He was Minister of Justice from 2005 to 2007, Minister of Foreign Affairs on 2013. [3][4][5] He is also member of Committee on Legal Affairs, Public Administration and Human Rights and Committee on European Integration.[4]

Early life

Bumçi was born 1974 in the Albanian capital of Tirana.

Career

He is a member of the Albanian Parliament, serving a constituency based around the northern Albanian town of Lezhë. He was elected as a representative of the Democratic Party of Albania.

Minister of Justice

From 2005 to 2007, he served as the country's Minister of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Sali Berisha.

Bumçi's term as Minister of Justice was marked by the government's efforts to dismiss the Prosecutor General of Albania, Theodhori Sollaku. While generally recognized to have been an ineffective Prosecutor General and accused by the ruling coalition of links to organized crime, the proceedings against him in the Parliament were deeply flawed ^[citation needed], eventually leading President Alfred Moisiu to issue a statement saying more time is needed to examine all the related documentation. This led to an outcry from the Democratic Party, which claimed to have investigated 83 cases of criminal action by Sollaku and reached guilty verdicts in all of them [6] in an extraordinarily short period of time^[citation needed]. After President Moisiu refused to decree the dismissal, Bumçi became the leading voice of the Democratic Party carrying on the fight to remove Sollaku.[7]

Minister of Foreign Affairs

On 4 April 2013, Bumçi was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.[8]

See also

• List of foreign ministers in 2013
• List of ministers of foreign affairs of Albania

References

1. "Parliamentary group". pd.al.
2. "List of elected members". Albanian parliament. Archived from the original on 2011-05-14.
3. "Aldo Bumçi" (PDF). ?. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-31. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
4. "BUMÇI, Aldo Tonin". Albanian parliament. Archived from the original on 2011-09-27.
5. "The minister of Justice, Bumci, The explosive in the car of judge Ndoka is a criminal act". InfoArkiv.
6. Lajme – Bumçi: Prokuroria i shkaktoi miliarda lekë dëm shtetit
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8. Byalkova, Nina (4 April 2013). "Ally exit prompts reshuffle of Albanian cabinet". SeeNews. Retrieved 30 June 2013.

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Political offices
Preceded by Fatmir Xhafaj	Minister of Justice 2005–2007	Succeeded by Enkelejd Alibeaj
Preceded by Edmond Panariti	67th Foreign Minister of Albania 4 April 2013–15 September 2013	Succeeded by Ditmir Bushati