Dritan Abazović


Dritan Abazović is an Albanian Montenegrin politician, President of United Reform Action since May 2017 and current member of Parliament of Montenegro.

Biography

Having finished elementary and secondary school in Ulcinj, Abazović graduated at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Sarajevo, becoming a valedictorian and winner of the "Golden Badge" and "Golden Charter" of the University of Sarajevo. He obtained a master's degree in 2008 from the Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations, University of Montenegro. He finished his PhD in 2019, in the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Sarajevo.
He was longtime associate of non-governmental organizations in the field of human rights, the Euro-Atlantic and civic activism. He was engaged in projects related to the promotion of multiculturalism in post-conflict areas of the former Yugoslavia. As a participant of international programs, conferences and seminars, he specialized in several study programs.
From 2005 to 2007 he was an assistant at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Sarajevo. In 2009, he completed the course for the Study of Peace at the University of Oslo. At the same University, he completed a seminar for professional development. In 2011, he resided in the United States while participating in the State Department program in Washington D.C.
From 2010 to 2012, he was the Executive Director of the local broadcasting company Teuta. From 2010 to 2012, he was Executive Director of the NGO Mogul in Ulcinj.
In 2010, he published his first book “Cosmopolitan culture and global justice”. Since 2010, he has worked as a high school teacher in Ulcinj, teaching the sociology of Culture, Communication and the history of religion.
He is fluent in Montenegrin, English and Albanian.
In 2017, he has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Montenegrins, Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks.

Political career

Abazović was one of the founders of the political party Positive Montenegro in 2012. At the 2012 Montenegrin parliamentary election, the party won 7 out of 81 seats, leading to Abazović becoming the youngest member of the current convocation of the Parliament of Montenegro. In 2014, following a split in the party, Abazović left Positive Montenegro, serving as an independent MP before joining the newly founded United Reform Action in 2015. He is currently president of URA and one of its two parliamentary representatives.