Bledar Çuçi | |
Birth Date: | 14 November 1970 |
Birth Place: | Tirana, Albania |
Office: | Minister of Internal Affairs |
Term End: | 8 July 2023 |
President: | Ilir MetaBajram Begaj |
Primeminister: | Edi Rama |
Party: | Socialist Party |
Predecessor: | Sandër Lleshaj |
Successor: | Taulant Balla |
Office1: | Minister of State for Local Governance |
Successor1: | Eduard Shalsi |
Signature: | Bledi Çuçi (nënshkrim).svg |
Spouse: | Delina Fico |
Nationality: | Albanian |
Bledar "Bledi" Çuçi (born 14 November 1970) is an Albanian politician. From January 2019 until December 2020 he served as Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in the second cabinet of Edi Rama.[1] [2] [3] On 16 December 2020, he was chosen by Prime Minister Edi Rama to serve as Interior Minister following the resignation of Sandër Lleshaj after mass protests hit the country following the police shooting of a 25 year old man who broke quarantine curfew.
Cuci is married to Delina Fico, a civil society activist. In the late 90's, Fico was the fiancee of current Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, in whose cabinet Cuci serves.[4]