Vjosa Osmani

Vjosa Osmani (2020)

Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu (born May 17, 1982 in Titova Mitrovica ) is a Kosovar lawyer and politician ( LDK until 2020 ). She has been President of the Republic of Kosovo since April 2021 .

Training and activity as a lawyer

Vjosa Osmani studied from 2001 to 2004 at the University of Prishtina Law and completed the Bachelor as valedictorian from. She then completed a Master of Laws degree in international law and international trade law from the University of Pittsburgh in the United States .

After returning to Kosovo in 2006, she became chief of staff and adviser for legal and international affairs to the then Kosovar President Fatmir Sejdiu . She was a member of the commission that drafted the constitution of the Republic of Kosovo and, after Kosovo's declaration of independence in 2008, was a member of the Kosovar legal team in the proceedings before the International Court of Justice , which confirmed the validity of the declaration of independence in a legal opinion . At the same time, she taught (humanitarian) international law and human rights at the University of Prishtina from 2006 and at the American University in Kosovo from 2010 . In 2010 she was also a founding partner of the law firm First Legal Solutions in Prishtina. She returned to the University of Pittsburgh as a visiting professor in 2010/11, where she taught a course on state building and law. There she also received her doctorate in 2015 with a thesis on the influence of the UN sales law on Kosovar law as a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD).

Political career

Osmani (right) as a translator at the meeting of Kosovar President Fatmir Sejdiu (center) with US President Barack Obama (2009)

Osmani began her political engagement as a member of the liberal-conservative Lidhja Demokratie e Kosovës (LDK), whose chairman was Fatmir Sejdiu. In November 2010 she was elected to the party's presidium. From 2011 until her election as president, she was a member of the Kosovar parliament .

Promotion at the LDK

Osmani was the LDK's top candidate for the 2019 parliamentary election in Kosovo and was seen as a potential prime minister . She said the people of Kosovo are ready for the country's first female prime minister. She promised to fight the high level of corruption and implement market economy reforms.

Between 2019 and 2020, Osmani acted as deputy party leader of the LDK. The party chairman of the LDK, Isa Mustafa , justified her party-internal disagreement with programmatic discrepancies. She was against the formation of a new government, which had previously been a coalition between the LDK and the Lëvizja Vetëvendosje! had passed and was resolved by a motion of censure.

Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo

From February 3, 2020 to March 22, 2021, Osmani was President of the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo . In this function, she took over the post of President of the Republic of Kosovo on November 5, 2020 following the resignation of Hashim Thaçi , who was charged with war crimes in the Kosovo war before a special tribunal .

At the beginning of 2021 - in the run-up to the parliamentary elections in February - Osmani founded the Guxo! ("you dare"). This went a list union with the left-wing nationalist Lëvizja Vetëvendosje! by Albin Kurti . Seven Guxo candidates entered parliament via the list of election winner Vetëvendosje, including Vjosa Osmani. She herself received over 300,000 votes.

President of the Republic of Kosovo

On April 4, 2021, the parliament of the Republic of Kosovo elected Vjosa Osmani as president in the third ballot with 71 out of 120 votes.

Private

Osmani is married and has two children. In addition to her native Albanian , Osmani is also fluent in English , Serbian , Turkish and Spanish .

Web links

Commons : Vjosa Osmani - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Curriculum Vitae Vjosa Osmani. (PDF) University of Prishtina, accessed on February 13, 2021 .
↑ Pitt Law Alumna Vjosa Osmani Nominated by LDK as candidate for prime minister of Kosovo | School of Law | University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved February 13, 2021 .
↑ Franziska Tschinderle, Pristina: She carries the hope of young people and women - Vjosa Osmani could become Kosovo's first female prime minister | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed February 13, 2021]).
↑ LDK remove Vjosa Osmani from party leadership. In: Prishtina Insight. June 20, 2020, accessed February 13, 2021 (American English).
↑ Këta janë 7 deputetët e listës “Guxo” të Vjosa Osmanit. In: Drenica Press , March 4, 2021.
^ Vjosa Osmani elected President of Kosovo. In: Der Spiegel. Retrieved April 4, 2021 .

personal data
SURNAME	Osmani, Vjosa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Osmani-Sadriu, Vjosa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Kosovar politician (LDK), President of Parliament and President of the Republic of Kosovo
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH	Titova Mitrovica , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

[juridiku-1] Curriculum Vitae Vjosa Osmani. (PDF) University of Prishtina, accessed on February 13, 2021 .

[2] Pitt Law Alumna Vjosa Osmani Nominated by LDK as candidate for prime minister of Kosovo | School of Law | University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved February 13, 2021 .

[3] Franziska Tschinderle, Pristina: She carries the hope of young people and women - Vjosa Osmani could become Kosovo's first female prime minister | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed February 13, 2021]).

[4] LDK remove Vjosa Osmani from party leadership. In: Prishtina Insight. June 20, 2020, accessed February 13, 2021 (American English).

[5] Këta janë 7 deputetët e listës “Guxo” të Vjosa Osmanit. In: Drenica Press , March 4, 2021.

[6] Vjosa Osmani elected President of Kosovo. In: Der Spiegel. Retrieved April 4, 2021 .