By Agim Sulaj and Furkan Abdula
PRISTINE, Kosovo (AA) – Kosovo’s parliament elected Vjosa Osmani as the country’s new president on Sunday.
Osmani received 71 votes from the lawmakers at the third round of voting in the Assembly of Kosovo.
While 82 deputies participated in the vote in the 120-member parliament, 11 votes were declared invalid.
The 38-year-old politician studied law at the University of Pristina in Kosovo and earned a doctorate from Pittsburgh University in the US.
Serving as the parliament speaker in Kosovo, Osmani also served as the acting president after the resignation of former President Hashim Thaci.
Married with two children, Osmani speaks English, Turkish, Spanish, and Serbian besides her native language Albanian.
