Kosovo Politicians Agree to Share Power at Last
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Kosovo’s main ethnic Albanian parties overcame differences and pledged to share power, breaking a three-month stalemate.
The top candidate for president, Ibrahim Rugova, of the moderate Democratic League of Kosovo, won general elections in November. But his party failed to win enough votes to govern alone, and Rugova refused to form a coalition.
Under the deal, Rugova will become president. The premier will be Bajram Rexhepi of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, which grew out of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army. Kosovo is part of Serbia, the main Yugoslav republic.
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