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POLICY AND DECISION-MAKING IN POLITICAL PARTIES IN KOSOVO: WOMEN, YOUTH AND ETHNIC COMMUNITIES

Punim Hulumtues, Kosove

This paper analyses the decision- and policy-making on the issues of women, youth and ethnic communities, in political parties that have their parliamentary groups in the Parliament of Kosovo, namely, in Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Movement for Self-determination (VETËVENDOSJE!), Alliance for Future of Kosovo (AAK), and in the New Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA). The regulation of these issues by the Serbian List (Lista Srpska) are not treated in this paper given that this political group is a citizens‟ initiative and holds no status of political party.

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The data for this research are taken from the statutes and programmes of political parties, from their election programmes, as well as from the interviews conducted with the members of the leaderships of these parties.

Results of this research show that strengthening of women and youth in the decision-making of political parties in Kosovo depends on the will of the leaders of these parties, who possess the statutory right to propose the full or partial composition of leaderships within their parties. In the leaderships of these political parties, the youth is represented only symbolically, whereas the representation of women varies from 11% (NISMA) up to 21% (LDK).

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