Fadil Nura

Nura was deputy mayor of Skenderaj from 2011 to 2014 and was the municipality's acting mayor from 2014 to 2017.^[1] He was a deputy minister of justice in the government of the Republic of Kosovo from 2018 to 2019.^[2]

Nura received the sixty-second position on the PDK's electoral list in the 2019 Kosovan parliamentary election. Parliamentary elections in Kosovo are conducted under open list proportional representation, and he finished in eighteenth place among the list's candidates.^[3] The list won twenty-four seats, and Nura would have been elected had the assembly mandates been assigned solely on the basis of votes received. Due to a requirement for one-third female representation, however, he did not initially receive a seat.^[4][5]

He was awarded an assembly mandate on 19 November 2020 as a replacement for party leader Kadri Veseli, who resigned from parliament after being indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Kosovo War.^[6] The PDK served in opposition during this period.

Nura finished in sixteenth place among the PDK's candidates in the 2021 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the party list won nineteen mandates.^[7][8] Vetëvendosje won the election, and the PDK continued in opposition. Nura was a member of the committee for oversight of public finances and the committee on agriculture, forestry, rural development, environment, spatial planning, and infrastructure.^[9]

Nura ran against incumbent Skenderaj mayor Bekim Jashari, an independent politician, in the 2021 Kosovan local elections. During the campaign, Nura said that the PDK had refrained from fielding a candidate against Jashari in the previous 2017 Kosovan local elections and that he himself had supported Jashari's candidacy. He added, however, that Skenderaj had stagnated under Jashari's leadership and that the municipality now needed "protectionism, not dilettantism."^[10] He defeated Jashari in the first round of voting. After winning the mayoral election, Nura resigned from the Republic of Kosovo assembly on 2 November 2021.^[11]

In September 2023, Nura announced that Skenderaj had laid the foundation stone for a memorial on the location where the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) appeared publicly for the first time.^[12]