Aleanca Kosova e Re

Aleanca Kosova e Re
Party leader	Behgjet Pacolli
founding	March 17, 2006
Place of foundation	Pristina
Headquarters	Pristina
Alignment	Economic liberalism , conservatism
Colours)	blue and yellow
Parliament seats	3/120
International connections	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Website	www.akr-ks.com

The Aleanca Kosova e Re (Brief description: AKR ; Albanian for "New Kosovo Alliance") is a liberal party in Kosovo , which on 17 March 2006 by Behgjet Pacolli was founded.

AKR took part in the parliamentary elections in 2007 for the first time and entered the Kosovar parliament with 12.3% (13 seats) . In the following parliamentary elections in 2010/2011 , AKR achieved eight out of 120 seats with 7.3% of the vote and took part in the governing coalition. In June 2014, AKR just missed the hurdle to enter parliament with 4.7%. In the 2017 parliamentary elections , she managed to get back into parliament through an electoral alliance with Lidhja Demokratie e Kosovës and Alternativa , which received a total of 25.53% and 29 seats.

Since November 2009 the party has been a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE).

Web links

• Official website of the AKR (Albanian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tom Lansford (Ed.): Political Handbook of the World 2015 . CQ Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4833-7155-9 ( google.de [accessed April 6, 2017]).