Avdullah Hoti

Avdullah Hoti (born 4 February 1976) is a Kosovar politician, who is currently serving as the Prime Minister of Kosovo^[a] since June the 3rd of 2020. He served as the Minister of Finance between 2014 and 2017 in the PDK/LDK coalition government.

Avdullah Hoti
5th Prime Minister of Kosovo
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 June 2020
President	Hashim Thaçi
Preceded by	Albin Kurti
First Deputy Prime Minister
In office 3 February 2020 – 25 March 2020
Prime Minister	Albin Kurti
Preceded by	Behgjet Pacolli
Succeeded by	Besnik Tahiri
Minister of Finance
In office 8 December 2014 – 2 August 2017
Prime Minister	Isa Mustafa
Preceded by	Bedri Hamza
Succeeded by	Agim Krasniqi
Personal details
Born	(1976-02-04) 4 February 1976 Orahovac, SAP Kosovo, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political party	Democratic League
Children	2
Alma mater	University of Pristina Staffordshire University

He was the coalition's candidate for Prime Minister in the Kosovan parliamentary election of 2017. He became the head the LDK parliamentary group from 2017 until 2020, when he took office as First Deputy Prime Minister.[1]He was nominated by LDK to be his party's nominee for PM after the Kurti government failed a confidence vote, but his eligibility to be PM was questioned by Albin Kurti and his party, that you can't form a government without having the first party that won the election into that government, they demanded new elections. However on 28th May 2020, the Constitution Court of Kosovo gave the right to the second party and Avdullah Hoti to form a government without elections. And after the party that won the elections failed to form again the new government, the Court argued that Avdullah Hoti is totally eligible to continue to proceed to be voted on the Parliament as the new PM of the Republic of Kosovo. On 3 June 2020, Hoti was elected Prime Minister with 61 votes in favor, 24 against and one abstention.[2]

On August 2, 2020, Hoti announced on his Facebook page that he was diagnosed with COVID-19 suffering mild symptoms, and that he would work from home in the coming two weeks.[3]

Countries visited

List of official visits abroad made by Avdullah Hoti as Prime Minister.

#	Country	Year	Cities visited	Type of visit
1	European Union	25.06.2020	Brussels	Official visit
2	Albania	03.07.2020	Tirana	Official visit
3	France	07.07.2020	Paris	Official visit

Notes

a.

^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.

References

1. "Ministria e Financave". mf.rks-gov.net. Retrieved Jun 25, 2020.
2. "Avdullah Hoti Kryeministër i ri, 61 deputetë japin votën pro". Gazeta Express (in Albanian). 2020-05-28. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
3. Anderson, Emma (2 August 2020). "Kosovo PM tests positive for COVID-19". POLITICO. Retrieved 3 August 2020.

Political offices
Preceded by Albin Kurti	Prime Minister of Kosovo 2020–present	Incumbent
Preceded by Behgjet Pacolli	First Deputy Prime Minister 2020–2020	Succeeded by Besnik Tahiri
Preceded by Bedri Hamza	Minister of Finance 2014–2017	Succeeded by Agim Krasniqi