Koce Trajanovski () is a Macedonian politician. He is a member of the opposition party

VMRO-DPMNE The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (), abbreviated as VMRO-DPMNE (), is a conservative and the main centre-right to right-wing political party in North Macedonia. It was establ ...

. He served as the Mayor of Skopje from 2009 to 2017. Before he was the mayor of Skopje, he was a Member of Parliament and mayor of the

Gazi Baba Municipality Gazi Baba (, ) is one of the ten municipalities that make up the City of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. The municipality administration consists of a council and mayor. "Skopje encompasses ten municipalities (Aerodrom, Butel, Čair, C ...

. He was born in 1956 in Skopje. He studied at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje and graduated in 1980. In 1981, he started work at MTZ – Hepos where he was in charge of the computer management area. After that, he opened his own private computer

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firm and closed that firm after 2 years of unsuccessfully managing that business. Following that, he decided that politics are more profitable. In 1998, he was elected MP from the winning party. In 2005 he was elected mayor of Gazi Baba. And in 2009 he was elected for his first mandate as mayor of

Skopje Skopje ( , ; ; , sq-definite, Shkupi) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It lies in the northern part of the country, in the Skopje Basin, Skopje Valley along the Vardar River, and is the political, economic, and cultura ...

. After the 2013 local elections in March he was elected for a second mandate. After the 2017 local elections held in October he was replaced by Petre Šilegov. On July 2024, The former mayor of Skopje, Koce Trajanovski, was appointed as the new director of the Public Enterprise for State Roads.

Awards and decorations

*2016: Commander of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity

References

External links

Official candidate website of Koce Trajanovski - Biography

Official website of the Mayor of Skopje - Biography
Mayors of Skopje Living people VMRO-DPMNE politicians Members of the Assembly of North Macedonia 1956 births {{NorthMacedonia-politician-stub