Menduh Thaçi (; born 3 March 1965) is a Macedonian politician of Kosovan Albanian descent. He is the leader of the Macedonian political party

Democratic Party of Albanians The Democratic Party of Albanians (; , ''Demokratska Partija na Albancite'') or DPA is a political party of ethnic Albanians in North Macedonia. The DPA is a merger of the Party for Democratic Prosperity of Albanians (PDPA) and the People's De ...

. Thaçi was born in

Tetovo Tetovo (, ; , sq-definite, Tetova) is a city in the northwestern part of North Macedonia, built on the foothills of Šar Mountain and divided by the Pena (river), Pena River. The municipality of Tetovo covers an area of at above sea level, wit ...

and his parents were both

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from

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, he is the fifth of six children. His family are from the Thaçi tribe. He attended primary and secondary school in Tetovo and graduated from the

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. He has been an active politician for 30 years. He started as vice-president of the Party for Democratic Prosperity of Albanians (PDPA). In 1997 a merger was formed between the Party for Democratic Prosperity of Albanians (PDPA) and the People's Democratic Party (PDP). He was vice-president until the year 2006, at that time he was chosen President of the Party, after

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resigned. As of July 2012, along with

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vice-president Xhevat Ademi, president of New Democracy Kastriot Haxhirexha, and seven other Macedonian Albanian political figures for involvement in the 2001 ethnic Albanian insurgency.

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