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Romani Initiative
The Romani Initiative (RI) is a political party in Kosovo representing the interests of the Roma community. The party won a single seat in the 2021 Kosovan parliamentary election. Its leader is Gazmen Salijević. Formation The Romani Initiative was established in Gračanica prior to the 2021 parliamentary election. Its stated purpose is to "break the cycle of discrimination and poverty that has affected the Roma community for many years." It promotes "the inclusion of Roma in all aspects of social life in Kosovo, and especially for active participation in the political process." History The Romani Initiative was initially reported as having won two of the ten seats reserved for non-Serb minority communities in the 2021 parliamentary election, emerging as the largest Roma party in Kosovo. Other Roma parties subsequently alleged that the RI's result was manipulated in conjunction with the Serb List, and in March 2021 the Elections Complaints Panel annulled more than eight hundred v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosovo
Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, 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 List of mountains in Kosovo, mountains, some of which have an altitude over . Its climate is mainly Continental climate, continental with some Mediterranean climate, Mediterranean and Alpine climate, alpine influences. Kosovo's capital and List of cities and towns in Kosovo#List, 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 languages, Paleo-Balkanic people attested in classical sources from the 4th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romani People In Kosovo
Romani may refer to: Ethnic groups * Romani people, or Roma, an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin ** Romani language, an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities ** Romanichal, Romani subgroup in the United Kingdom * Romanians (Romanian: ''români''), Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation Places * Români (river), in Romania * Români, Neamț, Romania, a village and commune * Români , Băbeni, Romania, a village * Baurci-Moldoveni (formerly Români), Moldova, a village * Battle of Romani, near the Egyptian town of the same name Other uses * Romani (name), including a list of people with the name * Romani (grape), or Trebbiano See also * Rom (other) *Roma (other) *List of Romani people *Names of the Romani people *"Romani ite domum "" () is the corrected Latin phrase for the graffito "" from a scene in the film '' Monty Python's Life of Brian''. ''Life of Brian'' The scene features John Cleese as a centurion and Graham Chapman as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Kosovan Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Kosovo on 14 February 2021. The results were a landslide victory for Vetëvendosje led by Albin Kurti and its coalition partner, Vjosa Osmani, former speaker of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo, parliament of Kosovo. The alliance won more than 50% of the total votes, the highest share since the first elections held in 2001 Kosovan parliamentary election, 2001, while their nearest rivals, the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Democratic Party, finished in second place, trailing by more than 33%. Background The 2019 Kosovan parliamentary election, October 2019 parliamentary elections saw opposition party Vetëvendosje emerge as the largest faction in parliament, finishing just ahead of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). The two parties formed a new government on 3 February 2020, with Vetëvendosje leader Albin Kurti as the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Prime Minister. Kurti was elected Prime Minister with 66 votes and ten abstentions. The 34 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gračanica, Kosovo
Gračanica ( sr-cyr, Грачаница) or Graçanicë ( sq-definite, Graçanica), is a town and municipality located in Pristina District in Kosovo. As of 2024, the town has a population of 18,486 inhabitants. It is centered around the Gračanica Monastery, ten kilometers east of Pristina. The 1999 Kosovo War and its aftermath transformed Gračanica from a sleepy village into an administrative center serving the needs of the 75,000 Kosovo Serbs living south of the Ibar River. After the 2013 Brussels Agreement, the municipality was expected to become part of a proposed Community of Serb Municipalities, however the agreement was never implemented as it was deemed unconstitutional. The town is also known for being the location of Gračanica Monastery, one of the richest Serbian medieval monuments from the 14th century. History Pope Benedict IX mentioned the village as ''Grazaniza'' in a letter from 1303. It was mentioned in King Stefan Milutin's founding charter of the Gračani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serb List (Kosovo)
The Serb List (; ) is a Kosovo Serbs, Serb minority List of political parties in Kosovo, political party in Kosovo. It was the dominant Serb party in politics of Kosovo, Kosovo politics, claiming all ten of Assembly of Kosovo, Assembly seats reserved for the community, from 2014 until all its members resigned and withdrew in 2022. The party retains close links to the Government of Serbia, led by the Serbian Progressive Party and President of Serbia, President Aleksandar Vučić. History The combined number of votes for the Serb List was 38,169 (5.30%) at the 2014 Kosovan parliamentary election. On 17 September 2014, the Serb List announced that they would join the government cabinet only if Vetëvendosje was not part of it. Aleksandar Jablanović, the Minister for Returns and Communities in the Government of Kosovo, was dismissed on 3 February 2015, after the opposition demanded his dismissal after he called the group of ethnic Albanians who attacked Serb IDPs in Gjakova with ston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fadil Gashi (Kosovo Politician, Born 1987)
Fadil Gashi (born 8 March 1987) is a politician in Kosovo from the Roma community. He has served in the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo since 2021 as a member of the Romani Initiative (RI). Early life and career Gashi was born in Obiliq, in what was then the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo in the Socialist Republic of Serbia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He has a primary school education. Politician Gashi appeared in the lead position on the Romani Initiative's electoral list in the 2021 Kosovan parliamentary election and was elected when the list won one of the ten seats reserved for members of Kosovo's non-Serb minority communities. He is a member of the committee on rights and interests of communities and returns. Several parliamentarians, including Gashi, absented themselves from the assembly during the first two failed attempts to confirm Vjosa Osmani as the Republic of Kosovo's president in April 2021. He and another minority list delegate appeared for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjosa Osmani
Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu (born 17 May 1982) is a Kosovan jurist and politician serving as the sixth president of Kosovo since April 2021, having previously served as acting president from November 2020 to March 2021. She also served as Speaker of the Assembly of Kosovo from 2020 to 2021. Born and raised in Titova Mitrovica, SFR Yugoslavia (present-day Kosovo), Osmani studied law at the University of Pristina and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She worked as an advisor to the president of Kosovo Fatmir Sejdiu before she was elected to the Assembly. Osmani held the position of Speaker of the Assembly of Kosovo from February 2020 to March 2021. She served as Kosovo's acting president following the resignation of President Hashim Thaçi. Upon her election as president, Osmani became the second woman to hold the position, as well as the first person to have served as both acting president and president of Kosovo. Osmani successfully ran on an anti-corruption platform and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Parties In Kosovo
This article lists political parties in Kosovo. Kosovo has a multi-party system with numerous political party, political parties, in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. Major parties Having seats in Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo as a result of 2025 Kosovan parliamentary election, 2025 general election and subsequent shifts: Minor parties * Albanian Christian Democratic Party of Kosovo (''Partia Shqiptare Demokristiane e Kosovës'') * Coalition Party (Kosovo) * Democratic Alternative of Kosovo (''Alternativa Demokratike e Kosovës'') * Guxo (''Guxo!'') * Justice Party (Kosovo), Justice Party (''Partia e Drejtësisë'') * Liberal Party of Kosovo (''Partia Liberale e Kosovës'') * New Kosovo Alliance (''Aleanca Kosova e Re'') * Social Democratic Initiative (Kosovo), Social Democratic Initiative (''Nisma Socialdemokrate'') * Social Democratic Party of Kosovo * The Word (''Fjala'') M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
