Bedri Hamza elected PDK chairman

2025-11-17 17:50:07Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Bedri Hamza elected PDK chairman
Bedri Hamza

Bedri Hamza was elected the new chairman of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, during the party's convention held on the afternoon of November 17.

Hamza was elected through open voting and there were no votes against him.

He had no rival candidate and his election was made after Memli Krasniqi resigned as party leader days earlier.

Hamza, 62, has served twice as Kosovo's Minister of Finance and for the last four years headed the municipality of South Mitrovica.

In the last parliamentary elections held on February 9, he was the PDK candidate for prime minister.

Hamza was the only party official to announce his candidacy to lead the country's currently second largest party.

But not everyone in the party agreed with the Convention's call five days after Krasniqi announced his resignation last Wednesday.

Enver Hoxhaj, who once led the party as acting chairman, opposed holding the Convention so soon and expressed ambitions to run, but he does not appear to have the necessary support to be part of the race in the first place.

He called for the Convention to be postponed to November 23, saying that more time is needed for a more quality race, and that a democratic party should have more than just a single candidate in the race.

"PDK needs new leadership, not old schemes, it needs a new vision, not a change of roles. This is the moment to pave the way for real change," Hoxhaj wrote on Facebook.

During the convention, he said that the competition is held under unequal conditions, which is why he was not part of the competition.


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