Teuta Arifi
Teuta Arifi | |
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Теута Арифи | |
Arifi in 2016 | |
| Mayor of Municipality of Tetovo | |
| In office April 2013 – October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Sadi Bexheti |
| Succeeded by | Bilal Kasami |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 October 1969 Tetovo, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Political party | Democratic Union for Integration |
| Ethnicity | Albanian |
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Teuta Arifi (Macedonian: Теута Арифи; born 19 October 1969) is a Macedonian politician of Albanian origin.
In 2002, Arifi became the first Albanian woman elected to the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia. Her political career continued with re-elections as a Member of Parliament in 2006, 2008, and 2011. She also serves as the Vice-President of the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), a significant political party representing the Albanian community in North Macedonia. In April 2013, she assumed the role of the Mayor of the Municipality of Tetovo.