Nishani was rushed to Germany for treatment after suffering double pneumonia with respiratory insufficiency due to complications caused by Covid-19.

His health condition deteriorated after he was infected with coronavirus a few months ago.

Bujar Nishani was born in Durrës on September 29, 1966. He graduated in 1988 from the Military Academy
“Skënderbej” in Tirana. He completed his postgraduate studies in Defense Resource Management in 1996 in California, USA. Nishani also studied law in Tirana University, where he graduated in 2004. In 2005, he received a Master’s degree in European Studies from the School of European Studies, University of Tirana.

His professional career began in 1988 as a lecturer at the Military Academy “Skënderbej.” Later on, in 1993, he served as Director of Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of Defense, to continue in the Department of NATO Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1994. In 1996, Nishani served in the cabinet of the Minister of Defense. In 1997, he was appointed and served as chairman of the Euro-Atlantic Military Forum.
Nishani’s political career is related to the Democratic Party with which he affilited in 1991. In 2001 he was elected secretary of the Tirana branch of the Democratic Party; in 2003 he was elected member of the Municipal Council of Tirana from the list of the Democratic Party candidates ; in 2005 he was elected member of the National Council of the Democratic Party and later a member of the Democratic Party Presidency.

In July 2005, Nishani, a candidate of the Democratic Party, was elected MP in constituency 34 in Tirana. In the June 2009 parliamentary elections, he was re-elected MP.

From March 2007 to September 2009, Nishani served as Minister of Interior; from September 2009 to April 2011 he served as Minister of Justice and then, in April 2011, he was reappointed Minister of Interior, a post he held until June 2012, when he was elected by the Albanian Parliament President of the Republic.

On July 24, 2012, Bujar Nishani was elected President of the Republic of Albania and served in this position for a full term until 2017.
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