Teuta Arifi

Teuta Arifi
Теута Арифи
Arifi in 2016
Mayor of Municipality of Tetovo
In office
April 2013 – October 2021
Preceded bySadi Bedjeti
Succeeded byBilal Kasami
Personal details
Born19 October 1969
Tetovo, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political partyDemocratic Union for Integration
EthnicityAlbanian
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Teuta Arifi (Macedonian: Теута Арифи; born 19 October 1969) is a Macedonian politician of Albanian origin.

In 2002, Arifi became the first Albanian woman elected to the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia. Her political career continued with re-elections as a Member of Parliament in 2006, 2008, and 2011. She also serves as the Vice-President of the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), a significant political party representing the Albanian community in North Macedonia. In April 2013, she assumed the role of the Mayor of the Municipality of Tetovo.