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Reformist Party ORA
Reformist Party ORA () was a social-democratic political party in Kosovo. The party supported Kosovo independence. The party was normally referred to as ORA, which in Albanian means the Hour. ORA was founded as ''Civil List ORA'' () in the summer of 2004. During the legislative elections on 24 October 2004, the party won 6.2 per cent of the popular vote and 7 out of 120 seats in the Assembly of Kosovo and formed together with the Democratic Party of Kosovo, a strong opposition. However, in the election held in November 2007, it failed to pass the 5% threshold required to win seats in parliament, netting only about 4,2% of votes. The following were members of Kosovo Albanian parliament from ORA: Nazim Jashari, Teuta Sahatqija, Gazmend Muhaxheri, Genc Gorani, Fatmire Mullhaxha Kollcaku, Ylber Hysa and Veton Surroi. Surroi was a member of the 'Kosovo Unity Team', a five-member team of the most senior negotiators that represents the people of Kosovo in the talks for the final ... [...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] |
Assembly Of Kosovo
The Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo (; sr-Cyrl-Latn, Скупштина Републике Косово, Skupština Republike Kosovo) or the Kuvendi, is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Kosovo that is directly elected by the people every four years. It was originally established by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo in 2001 to provide 'provisional, democratic self-government'. On 17 February 2008, representatives of the people of Kosovo unilaterally declared Kosovo's independence and subsequently adopted the Constitution of Kosovo, which came into effect on 15 June 2008. Members The Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo is regulated by the Constitution of Kosovo and has 120 directly elected members; 20 are reserved for national minorities as follows: * 10 seats for the representatives of the Serbs. * 4 seats for the representatives of the Romani, Ashkali and Egyptians. * 3 seats for the Bosniaks. * 2 seats for the Turks. * 1 seat for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Political Parties In Kosovo
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New Kosovo Alliance
New Kosovo Alliance (, AKR) is a liberal political party in Kosovo. The party was founded on 3 May 2006, by Behgjet Pacolli. History In April 2007, a BBSS Gallup International/Index survey suggested that the AKR was the fourth-largest political party in Kosovo with 8% support amongst those surveyed. The survey showed that the AKR was lagging behind the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) (26%), Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) (17%), and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (9%). Index Kosova, April 2007 The AKR first ran candidates in the Kosovo elections which were held on 17 November 2007. The party won 12.3% of the vote and 13 seats in the assembly of Kosovo, making it the third-largest party in the nation. It was the largest official opposition party to the coalition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance For The Future Of Kosovo
The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (, AAK) is a right-leaningPolitical Parties in Kosova – Profile and Ideology Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2008 in . Leadership The party was formed on 29 April 2001 after having previously operated as a coalition of five parties since 2 May 2000. Founder and the current president of the par ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veton Surroi
Veton Surroi (born 17 July 1961) is a Kosovar Albanian publicist, politician and former journalist. Surroi is the founder and former leader of the ORA political party, and was a member of Kosovo assembly from 2004 to 2008. Veton Surroi studied Modern English Language and Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He worked as a journalist in the Albanian language daily '' Rilindja''. In 1989, he was one the founders of the Association for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative and the first independent trade unions in Kosovo. In 1990, he founded and became editor-in-chief of the independent ''Koha'' weekly. From 1991-92, he was president of the Parliamentary Party of Kosovo. In 1997, Surroi established one of the biggest Kosovo Albanian daily newspapers ''Koha Ditore'' and was the editor-in-chief for a number of years before he entered politics in Kosovo. Surroi's father, Rexhai Surroi, was one of the very few Albanians to become ambassadors of the former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ylber Hysa
Ylber Hysa was a member of the Assembly of Kosovo. He is a member of the Reformist Party ORA and a civil rights activist, and for many years was the director of Kosovo Action for Civic Initiatives (KACI), a Kosovo Albanian non-governmental organization. In September 2007 he was ORA's nominee for the mayoralty of Pristina. From 2012 to 2018, he served as the Ambassador of the Republic of Kosovo to North Macedonia. A year later, he became the Ambassador of Kosovo to Montenegro , image_flag = Flag of Montenegro.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Montenegro.svg , coa_size = 80 , national_motto = , national_anthem = () , image_map = Europe-Mont .... References Living people Kosovo Albanians Reformist Party ORA politicians Politicians from Pristina 1965 births {{Kosovo-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gazmend Muhaxheri
Gazmend Muhaxheri (born 27 September 1964) is a politician in Kosovo. He served in the Assembly of Kosovo from 2004 to 2007 with the Reformist Party ORA and has been the mayor of Peja since 2013 as a member of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). He is a nephew of Ymer Muhaxheri, who was a prominent LDK politician in Peja in the 1990s. Private career Muhaxheri is a construction engineer. He is a member of the majority Kosovo Albanian community. Politician Reformist Party ORA Muhaxheri appeared in the fifth position on the Reformist Party ORA's electoral list in the 2004 Kosovan parliamentary election, which was held under closed list proportional representation, and was elected when the list won seven seats. He was chosen as ORA's representative on the assembly presidency, which had eight members in total. The LDK won the election and formed a coalition government with the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), while ORA served in opposition. In February 2005, Muhaxheri br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teuta Sahatqija
Teuta Sahatqija (born 15 April 1962) is a politician and diplomat in Kosovo. She has served three terms in the Assembly of Kosovo, initially with the Reformist Party ORA, which she led from 2008 to 2010, and later with the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). She was Consul General for the Republic of Kosovo in New York City from 2016 to 2020. Early life and career Sahatqija was born to a Kosovo Albanian family in Gjakova, in what was then the Autonomous Region of Kosovo and Metohija in the People's Republic of Serbia, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. She graduated from the University of Pristina in 1985 as an electronics engineer. Sahatqija worked at the ''Printeus'' computer centre in Prizren from 1985 to 1987 and was head of the ''Ereniku'' centre in Gjakova from 1987 to 1999. She worked in information technology with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) in 1998–99 and ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Kosovan Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Kosovo on 17 November 2007 alongside Municipal elections. Voters elected the 120 members of the unicameral Assembly, the legislative branch of the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government that the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo created. The elections were scheduled by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Joachim Rücker (head of the UNMIK) on 1 September 2007. This was the first parliamentary election in Kosovo to be held under open list proportional representation. The 2001 and 2004 elections had been held under a closed list system. Results Of the ten seats reserved for Serbs, six were won by four parties which decided to form a coalition on 5 December: Slaviša Petković's Serb Democratic Party of Kosovo and Metohija, Dragiša Mirić's Serb Kosovo-Metohija Party, Mihajl Šćepanović's Serb People's Party and Nebojša Živić's Union of Independent Social Democr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party Of Kosovo
The Democratic Party of Kosovo (, PDK) is one of the largest political parties in Kosovo. It was originally a social-democratic party coming out of the demilitarised Kosovo Liberation Army after the Kosovo War, with most of the leadership coming from Albanian nationalists and former members of the People's Movement of Kosovo. However, during its congress in January 2013, it positioned itself as a centre-right party and is considered to be a conservative party. The Democratic Party of Kosovo since July 2021 is headed by Memli Krasniqi, the former Vice President of the Assembly of Kosovo, Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports. History The party was founded on 10 October 1999 from the political wing of the Kosovo Liberation Army as the Party for the Democratic Progress of Kosovo (''Partia për Progres Demokratik e Kosovës''), but was renamed on 21 May 2000. The party has increased in size and regional scope, initially winning the elections of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Kosovan Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Kosovo on 24 October 2004 during the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, United Nations Interim Administration. The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) remained the largest party, winning 47 of the 120 seats. A coalition government was formed by the LDK and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), with the AAK's leader Ramush Haradinaj becoming Prime Minister. Results Notes References Parliamentary elections in Kosovo 2004 elections in Europe, Kosovo 2004 elections in Serbia, Kosovo 2004 in Kosovo, Parliamentary Elections in Serbia and Montenegro October 2004 in Europe, Kosovo {{Kosovo-election-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
