KRESHNIK RADONIQI

Chairman of CEC

Kreshnik Radoniqi is a judge in the Special Department of the Court of Appeals from 01.07.2019.

Radoniqi graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Pristina in 2006, while the exam of jurisprudence passed in July 2007. In May 2013 he completed his Master studies in the USA – North Carolina.

He started his professional work in the District Court in Peja as an intern from May 2006 to May 2007. From 2007 to 2008, he worked as a Senior Legal Officer in the Ministry of Justice in Prishtina, while from February to September 2008, he worked as a lawyer in Peja. During this time, he also worked as a Legal Advisor at the Financing Agency in Kosovo.

From September 2008 to August 2012, he worked as a Legal Advisor of judges of EULEX in the District Court in Peja.

Kreshnik Radoniqi was appointed as a judge in the Municipal Court in Peja in July 2012, while with the change of the judicial system from January 2013, has been re-appointed judge in the General Department of the Basic Court in Peja. From November 2015 to May 2016, he worked as a judge of the Serious Crimes Department in the Basic Court in Pristina, continuing his work in the Basic Court of Peja, in the same department.

On 23.12.2016 he was appointed President of the Basic Court in Peja, which he left to become a judge in the Special Department of the Court of Appeals on 01.07.2019.

On June 14, he was appointed Chairman of the Central Election Commission by the President of the Republic of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani.