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Mayors Of Pristina
The mayor of Pristina (Albanian language, Albanian: Prishtinë; Serbian language, Serbian: Приштина or Priština) is the head of the City of Pristina (capital of Kosovo). The mayor acts on behalf of the city and performs the executive function in the City of Pristina. In the Preliminary results of the 2011 census the population of Pristina was numbered around 198,000. The majority of population is Albanian, but there are also smaller communities including Bosniaks, Serbs, Romani people, Romani and others. The surface of Pristina is 854 km2. Pristina is known as the center of cultural, economical and political developments. Since 2021 the current mayor is Përparim Rama. The city is home of University of Pristina, Pristina International Airport Adem Jashari, the Government Building and the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo, Assembly of Kosovo. Office According to the current legislation, the mayor is elected along with members of the City Assembly at the direct secret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Përparim Rama
Përparim Rama (born 20 January 1976) is a Kosovo Albanian architect and urban planner serving as the current Mayor of Pristina since 7 December 2021. His work has been published in London Building Design Magazine and several other international design magazines. Biography Përparim Rama was born in Pristina on 20 January 1976. His father was a well-known Albanian painter. In 1992, when he was 16 years old, Përparim Rama moved to Great Britain along with his cousin Iliriana. With the deteriorating political situation between Kosovo and Serbia and the imposition of sanctions by the then Yugoslavia, Yugoslav state on Kosovo Albanians, all Albanian employees were removed from public office. Rama’s parents, both teachers, remained unemployed. At the time, young men were being recruited by the Yugoslav army to be deployed to the front lines in the war against Croats or Bosniaks. In Great Britain Rama sought asylum, which was granted due to the aggravated political situation in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosovo Politic Personality Icon
Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the north and east, and North Macedonia to the southeast. It covers an area of and has a population of approximately 1.6 million. Kosovo has a varied terrain, with high plains along with rolling hills and mountains, some of which have an altitude over . Its climate is mainly continental with some Mediterranean and alpine influences. Kosovo's capital and most populous city is Pristina; other major cities and urban areas include Prizren, Ferizaj, Gjilan and Peja. Kosovo formed the core territory of the Dardani, an ancient Paleo-Balkanic people attested in classical sources from the 4th century BCE. The Dardani established the Kingdom of Dardania, with its political and cultural center likely located near present-day Lipjan (ancient Ulpiana). The kingdom was incorporated into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic Party Of Kosovo
The Social Democratic Party of Kosovo (, PSD) is a political party in Kosovo. It was established on 10 February 1990 by Kaqusha Jashari, and was the second political party to be established in the newly pluralist Kosovo. Leadership The current leader of the party is Dardan Molliqaj. He was chosen at the party's meeting on 15 December 2019. Presidents of the Social Democratic Party of Kosovo (1990–present) In Parliament PSD participated in the 2017 Kosovan parliamentary election, elections of 2017 in a coalition with Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, AAK and Social Democratic Initiative (Kosovo), Nisma, but failed to get any seat in the parliament. The party was represented in parliament by 12 MP's, who all dissolved into the party from the Group of the Independent Deputies, a group of former members of the Vetëvendosje movement. Dardan Sejdiu was the head of the parliamentary group. In the 2019 Kosovan parliamentary election, elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Politician
An independent politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or Bureaucracy, bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party and therefore they choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In some cases, a politician may be a member of an unregistered party and therefore officially recognised as an independent. Officeholders may become independents after losing or r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vetëvendosje
Vetëvendosje (, , LVV or VV) is a Left-wing politics, left-leaning Democratic socialism, democratic socialist List of political parties in Kosovo, political party in Kosovo. It is a member of the Progressive Alliance, and an observer in the Party of European Socialists, and the Socialist International. Vetëvendosje was founded in 2005 as a grassroots, anti-establishment, and pro-independence movement. It gained its initial prominence with protests against the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), and it later protested against the process of negotiations between the Kosovar delegations and Serbia over Kosovo's independence, claiming that the Kosovars' right to self-determination was not subject to Serbia's approval. A major turning point for Vetëvendosje's position in Kosovo's politics took place in 2010, when the movement expanded its activity and registered as a citizen initiative at the Central Election Commission and ran for the 2010 Kosovan parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shpend Ahmeti
Shpend Ali Ahmeti (born 18 April 1978, Pristina) is a Kosovo Albanian politician who served as the mayor of Pristina. He was leader of the New Spirit Party, which merged into Vetëvendosje in 2011, and served as their vice chairman. However, after internal disputes he left the party in 2018 to become the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Kosovo. In 2019 he became an independent politician. Ahmeti lectured public policy at the American University in Kosovo before he became mayor. In the first round of elections on 3 November 2013, Ahmeti was around 8,000 votes behind Isa Mustafa, but in the second round on 1 December 2013 he won by around 2,500 votes. Mustafa accused Ahmeti of fraud. Ahmeti's win was eventually confirmed, ending 15 years of LDK tenure in the capital of Kosovo. In October 2017 he ran in the local elections as a candidate of Vetëvendosje again and successfully managed to keep his position as mayor of Prishtina. Education He has completed university stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isa Mustafa
Isa Mustafa (; born 15 May 1951) is a retired Kosovar politician. Mustafa was the mayor of Pristina from December 2007 to December 2013 and served as the prime minister of Kosovo between December 2014 and September 2017. He was the leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) between 2010 and 2021. Early life Mustafa was born in the village of Prapashtica, in the Gollak Highlands of the District of Pristina, Kosovo on 15 May 1951, to Kosovo Albanian parents. He and his family speak Albanian in the Gheg dialect of the language. He finished primary and high school in Pristina, and attended the University of Pristina in the Faculty of Economics, where he obtained a master's degree and a PhD. In 1974 he began his professional work, as an examiner at the University of Pristina. Political career Isa Mustafa began his political career in the early 1980s, when he became the head of the municipal government of Pristina, from 1984 to 1988. In the 1990s, as Yugoslavia started to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismet Beqiri
Ismet () is a Turkish form of the Arabic name Ismat which comes from Ismah. Along with Turkish, the name is also seen in Albanian, Bosnian, and Macedonian. The name means "honesty" or "purity" and in classical "infallibility", "immaculate", "impeccability" and "faultlessness". Given name * Ismet Ahmad (1945–2023), Indonesian politician and academic * Ali İsmet Öztürk (born 1964), Turkish aerobatics pilot * Ismet Akpinar (born 1995), German basketball player * Ismet Asllani (1955–1999), Kosovan businessman, humanitarian and army commander * İsmet Atlı (1931–2014), Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler * Ismet Azizi (born 1960), Kosovan professor and journalist * Ismet Bajramović (1966–2008), Bosnian soldier * Ismet Cheriff Vanly (1924–2011), Kurdish scholar and political activist * Ismet Đuherić (born 1949), Bosnian WWII army commander * Ismet Ekmečić (born 1969), Slovenian footballer * İsmet Ergün (born 1950), German artist and stage designer * Ismet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic League Of Kosovo
The Democratic League of Kosovo (, LDK) is the oldest and one of the largest list of political parties in Kosovo, political parties in Kosovo. History During the late 1980s, nationalism was on the rise throughout the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Since 1974 the province of Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, Kosovo, although part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, was a self-governed entity over which the Serbian parliament had almost no factual control (''see Political status of Kosovo#Status in Communist Yugoslavia, Political status of Kosovo''). In the late 1980s, civil unrest which had been striking the province for decades, suddenly erupted further in Kosovo as ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, Albanians demanded more autonomy (in view of becoming the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia#Federal units, 7th Yugoslav Republic). At the same time, League of Communists of Serbia, Serbian Communists' leader Slobodan Milošević used the situation in Kosovo as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salih Gashi
Saleh or Salih () is a prophet mentioned in the Qur'an who prophesied to the tribe of Thamud in ancient Arabia, before the lifetime of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The story of Salih is linked to the story of the She-Camel of God, which was the gift given by God to the people of Thamud when they desired a miracle to confirm that Salih was truly a prophet. Historical context The Thamud were a tribal confederation in the northwestern region of the Arabian Peninsula, mentioned in Assyrian sources in the time of Sargon II. The tribe's name continues to appear in documents into the fourth century CE, but by the sixth century they were regarded as a group that had vanished long ago. According to the Quran, the city that Saleh was sent to was called ''Al-Ḥijr'' (), which corresponds to the Nabataean city of Hegra. The city rose to prominence around the 1st century AD as an important site in the regional caravan trade. Adjacent to the city were large, decorated rock-cut tombs u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
