Pacolli’s Presidency and Prospects for Kosovo’s Public Standing Abroad
Pacolli’s Presidency and Prospects for Kosovo’s Public Standing Abroad

Summary/Abstract: The election of a man as president who has spent most of his life outside Kosovo, and who is married to a Russian, has met with questionable support amongst Kosovo’s Albanian population. Behgjet Pacolli’s New Alliance for Kosovo (AKR) party won only 8% of the vote in December’s elections, barely even clearing the 5% threshold required for gaining seats in parliament. And the voting process for the presidency itself revealed hostility to Pacolli’s election, with opposition MPs boycotting the voting session and Hashim Thaçi having to summon his MPs to a meeting after the second round of voting, when initially 11 of his PDK MPs voted against Pacolli.

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