At midday on January 13, ranking members of the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK, the country’s oldest political party, passed one by one through a scrum of television cameras and photographers.
Two weeks earlier, the LDK had limped across the finishing line of Kosovo’s December general election with just 13.2 per cent of votes cast, which translated into a meagre 15 MPs in the country’s 120-seat parliament – five less than it won in the previous, inconclusive election of February 2025.
The LDK top brass had gathered to dissect the result and the responsibility of party leader Lumir Abdixhiku amid calls for him to quit.
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