Kaqusha Jashari born 1946 in Prishtina, Kosovo

Kosovo

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. She is a Kosovo Albanian politician and engineer and a member of the Assembly of Kosovo

Assembly of Kosovo

The Assembly of Kosovo was originally established by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo in 2001 to provide 'provisional, democratic self-government'....

 on the Democratic Party of Kosovo

Democratic Party of Kosovo

The Democratic Party of Kosovo is the largest political party in Kosovo . It is a social democratic party and the main leftist party in Kosovo....

 list since 2007. She is of Montenegrin descent on her mother's side.

In May 1988 Jashari replaced Azem Vllasi

Azem Vllasi

- Early years :In his youth and student years, Vllasi chaired a number of youth organizations; the student league of Kosovo and of Yugoslavia, and from 1974, the League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia. As socialist youth chairman, he became popular and gained the support of President Tito, which...

 as the President of the Provential Committee of the League of Communists of Kosovo

League of Communists of Kosovo

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. On 17 November 1988, Jashari and Vllasi were forced to resign and Rahman Morina

Rahman Morina

Rahman Morina , , was an police officer and political figure. He is remembered as a collaborator of the Slobodan Milosevic regime.- Early career :...

 was elected President of the Provential Committee on 27 January 1989 by the Presidium of the Provential Committee. They were both dismissed because of their unwillingness to accept the constitutional amendments curbing Kosovo's autonomy, and were replaced by proxies of Slobodan Milošević

Slobodan Milošević

Slobodan Milošević was President of Serbia and Yugoslavia. He served as the President of Socialist Republic of Serbia and Republic of Serbia from 1989 until 1997 in three terms and as President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000...

, the leader of the League of Communists of Serbia

League of Communists of Serbia

The League of Communists of Serbia was the Serbian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990. Under a new constitution ratified in 1974, greater power was devolved to the various republic level branches. In the late 1980s, the party was...

 at the time.

After that, she was president of the Social Democratic Party of Kosovo (PSDK) from 1991 until 2008, when she was succeeded by the former prime minister and Kosovo Liberation Army

Kosovo Liberation Army

The Kosovo Liberation Army or KLA was a Kosovar Albanian paramilitary organization which sought the separation of Kosovo from Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the 1990s....

 (KLA) guerilla leader Agim Çeku

Agim Çeku

Agim Çeku is the current Minister of Security Forces for the Republic of Kosovo. He is also the former Prime Minister of Kosovo and a chief of the Kosovo Liberation Army . He was born in the village of Ćuška near Peć, in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo .Çeku is an ethnic Albanian...

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• Kaqusha Jashari *Biografia e vërtetë