The Social Democratic Union (, SDU) is a minority interest political party in Kosovo representing

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. It was founded by

Duda Balje Duda Balje (born 16 October 1977) is a Kosovar Bosniak politician. A member of the Vakat Coalition, she served as a member of the Kosovan Assembly from 2001 to 2017. She chaired the Commission on Human Rights, Gender Equality, Missing Persons a ...

, who is also the party’s only Assembly Member. Balje was a member of the Vakat Coalition in the 2019 parliamentary election, who then later moved to the LDK parliamentary group. The party participated in the 2021 parliamentary elections and won one of the three guaranteed seats for Bosniaks in the Assembly of Kosovo with 2,549 votes. The party ran in the 2021 parliamentary election getting 2,549 votes, initially failing to get any representation in the Assembly. However, the party made a complaint to the Election Complaints and Appeals Panel (PZAP in Albanian) over the irregularity of votes received by the Vakat Coalition and the United Community led by Adrijana Hodžić. This complaint was accepted and the Election Complaints and Appeals Panel decided to annul 4,205 votes from Serb-majority municipalities. This meant that the United Community did not receive enough votes to enter the

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, while SDU gained representation in the Assembly winning 1 seat. This decision was later confirmed by the Supreme Court of Kosovo. The party currently has a

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agreement with the Lëvizja Vetëvendosje (LVV)-led

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, and the party voted for the LVV-backed candidate

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 ...

in the 2021 Kosovan presidential election.

Election results

References

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