Ali Ahmeti was born on 4 January 1959, in Zajas, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia.

In the year 1986, he was elected as a member of the Main Council with a specific duty, interconnecting Kosovo with Europe.

[6] In this light, he initiated and was named as a leader of the Coordination Council which unified all Albanian political parties in Macedonia, and the former structures of the NLA.

In June 2002, Ahmeti founded a new political party called the Democratic Union for Integration.

DUI entered in coalition with the winning party from the Macedonian block, Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM).