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Avdullah Hoti will run for LDK chairman: The time has come!
2026-01-25 19:28:20 / KOSOVA
Avdullah Hoti has announced his intentions to take over the leadership of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), saying that "the time has come" to turn it into the main political force in the country.
Hoti – who briefly served as Kosovo's prime minister between 2020 and 2021 – wrote on Facebook on Sunday that he will seek the confidence of the party's delegates at the LDK Assembly on January 31.
He said he is doing this "after the resignation of Mayor Abdixhiku due to the recent election result."
Current leader Lumir Abdixhiku is expected to seek a vote of confidence from delegates at the Assembly on January 31, after previously saying that he had offered his resignation but would only leave if the party Assembly votes to dismiss him.
It is not clear whether Abdixhiku - who has a mandate until 2027 - will lose the vote of confidence to pave the way for a race for party chairman, Radio Free Europe reports.
Hoti wrote that "at this crucial moment for the LDK and for Kosovo, I pledge with full responsibility to take on the burden of the political and organizational revival of the party."
Hoti, 50, has been part of the LDK since 2006 and, in addition to being the country's prime minister, in the past he has also served as Kosovo's Minister of Finance.
"I pledge that no one will be left on the margins. That we will build an open, fair and competitive LDK. An LDK where advancement is based on merit, integrity and dedication; where professionals, women and young people find the space they deserve," he wrote.
He expressed his conviction that within the LDK the potential "is much greater", adding that the party must use it to become "the main political force in the Republic of Kosovo, in service of citizens and state interests".
The LDK scheduled the party's Assembly for January 31st after a Presidency meeting last week, where members discussed the disappointing result in the December 28th snap parliamentary elections.
The LDK, the oldest party in Kosovo, is experiencing one of the most difficult periods in its history, after the December elections brought its second-worst result.
Several party members, including Hoti and Hykmete Bajrami – who irrevocably resigned from the position of party vice-chair – called for Abdixhiku's removal, after the LDK came in third, winning only about 13 percent of the vote.
After the Presidency meeting last week, LDK official Besian Mustafa did not confirm that there would be a race for party chairman in the January 31st Assembly.
Speaking at a press conference, Mustafa said that "there needs to be another process to come up with other candidacies to have an electoral process in LDK."
"Now we are part of the confidence vote. We will see the result of the confidence vote first," said Mustafa.
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