Trajko Veljanovski


Trajko Veljanovski was the Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia from 2008 to 2017. He was born on 2 November 1962, and graduated from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University working as a lawyer until 1999.

Politics

He started in politics in 1993 by joining VMRO-DPMNE. He was elected Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Justice in the Macedonian Parliament in 1999, then became Deputy Minister in the same ministry.
In the 2006 elections he was elected Member of the Assembly. In the 2008 elections he was re-elected and became the Speaker of the Macedonian parliament.