Born in
Gostivar,
SFR Yugoslavia, Taravari graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje in 1998. He completed his specialisms in
neurology (2006) and family medicine (2011). Since 2010 he is a lecturer at his
alma mater, and in 2011 he defended his thesis on
Parkinson's disease. He resigned in October. He was elected mayor of his hometown in
2017 and 2021. In the
2024 North Macedonian presidential election, Taravari came fifth of seven candidates, receiving 83,393 votes (over 9%) in the first round. He had said that year that the
Constitution of North Macedonia should be amended to guarantee one of the three main offices –
president,
prime minister, speaker of the parliament – to Albanians. He also said that
Bulgarians should be recognised in the constitution, that the constitution should be revised to name the
Albanian language explicitly, and for the president to be voted indirectly by parliament. In June 2024, Taravari was named Minister of Health for a second time. He announced that the Ministry of Health would dismiss the directors of the Mother Teresa Clinical Complex. He announced his resignation on 15 May 2025. Taravari withdrew the five members of parliament of AA from the government of prime minister
Hristijan Mickoski, who still retained an overall majority. Taravari has been involved in a dispute with
Ziadin Sela over the leadership of the Alliance for Albanians. Taravari wished to run in alliance with the
VLEN Coalition in parliamentary and presidential elections in 2024. Sela, the chairman of the party assembly, disagreed; the fraction supporting him allied with the
Democratic Union for Integration. The two sectors ran their own party congresses and re-elected their respective leaders. In February 2025, the Basic Court of
Tetovo recognised Sela as the party's legitimate leader, a decision that Taravari appealed. == References ==