Trajko Veljanovski (born 2 November 1962) is a Macedonian politician who was the President of the Assembly of North Macedonia from 2008 to 2017. He was graduated from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University working as a

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until 1999.

Politics

He started in politics in 1993 by joining

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 was elected Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Justice in the Macedonian Parliament in 1999, then became

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in the same ministry. In the

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he was elected Member of the Assembly. In the

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he was re-elected and became the

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of the

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Arrest and conviction for the Macedonian Parliament storming

On 2019, Veljanoski was arrested and questioned for his role in the

2017 storming of Macedonian Parliament On 27 April 2017, about 200 Macedonian nationalism, Macedonian nationalists (some of whom were members and sympathizers of VMRO-DPMNE) stormed the Macedonian Parliament in reaction to the election of Talat Xhaferi, an ethnic Albanians, Albanian ...

. Two years later, he was convicted as an organizer of the storming and sentenced to over 6 years in prison. In 2025, a court in

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ordered Veljanovski's release, citing a 2018 amnesty law.

References

1962 births Living people Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje alumni Macedonian lawyers VMRO-DPMNE politicians Speakers of the Assembly of North Macedonia {{NorthMacedonia-politician-stub