Vjosa Osmani opens LDK campaign, calls for national unity

2026-05-28 18:51:30 / KOSOVA ALFA PRESS

Vjosa Osmani opens LDK campaign, calls for national unity

LDK presidential candidate Vjosa Osmani officially opened the electoral campaign for the June 7 elections, positioning herself as the continuer of Ibrahim Rugova's political legacy and as an alternative to the politics of division in Kosovo.

In front of thousands of supporters in Pristina and thousands more who followed him throughout Kosovo and the diaspora, Osmani built his entire speech around a single message: "Unite."

"This is not a call for a party. It is a call for Kosovo," she declared to cheers from the crowd.

In one of the most direct political speeches in recent years, Osmani harshly attacked the culture of conflict and polarization that, according to her, has exhausted citizens and isolated the country.

"Politics that incite hatred, division and fear must be a thing of the past," she said, warning that the June 7 elections are not just a competition between parties, but "a choice between two visions for the state."

Osmani presented Rugovism not as historical nostalgia, but as a modern political project for the future of Kosovo.

"Rugovism is not a relic of the past. It is the most modern idea that Albanian politics has known," she declared.

In the strongest part of her speech, the LDK candidate linked Kosovo's strategic destiny to the alliance with the United States of America and Euro-Atlantic integration, calling this orientation "the historical definition of the Republic."

She promised that Kosovo, under her leadership, will be "a state of institutions and not a state of one man."

The hall was dominated by the flags of Kosovo and the United States, while the crowd reacted with ovations, especially when Osmani spoke about the diaspora, young people, and families facing emigration.

"More people are dreaming about the airport than the future in Kosovo. This needs to change," she said.

The speech ended with an emotional appeal for citizens to return to the LDK as the "political house of state formation."

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