Democratic League of Kosovo

The Lidhja Demokratike e Kosovës (short LDK, German Democratic League of Kosovo) is a political party in Kosovo. It is characterized conservative and liberal- conservative and assigns itself the right of center on the political spectrum a. Party chairman since 2010 of acting as mayor of Prishtina Isa Mustafa. He released on November 7 this year with 235 delegates votes Fatmir Sejdiu by the Presidency from; this received 124 votes.

The LDK is one next to the PDK 's leading political parties in Kosovo. It was founded on 23 December 1989 as a resistance organization against the Serb minority rule, among others, Ibrahim Rugova, who later became President of Kosovo.

In its early days it was Western observers as a mixture of Honoratiorenklub and mass movement; many officials were ahead of their time LDK members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. With the advent of the more radical KLA in the late 1990s and its successor parties she lost in some Kosovo Albanians attractive.

In the parliamentary elections in Kosovo 2010/2011, the LDK came to 27 out of 100 seats and thus to 24.69 percent, more than 2 seats in the parliamentary elections of 2007.