Azem Vllasi
| Azem Vllasi | |
|---|---|
| 11th President of the League of Communists of Kosovo | |
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In office May 1986 – 1988 |
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| Prime Minister | Nazmi Mustafa Kaqusha Jashari |
| Preceded by | Kolë Shiroka |
| Succeeded by | Kaqusha Jashari |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1948 (age 68–69) Kosovska Kamenica, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (in today's Kosovo) |
| Political party |
Social Democratic Party of Kosovo (from 2004) League of Communists of Kosovo (until 1989) |
| Spouse(s) | Nadira Avdić-Vllasi |
| Profession | lawyer, politician |
Azem Vllasi (Serbo-Croatian: Azem Vlasi, Азем Власи; born 1948) is a senior Kosovo Albanian politician and lawyer.
Vllasi was born in Robovac, Kosovska Kamenica, Yugoslavia, in today's Kosovo. In his youth and student years, Vllasi chaired a number of youth organizations: the student league of Kosovo and of Yugoslavia, and from 1974, the League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia. As socialist youth chairman, he became popular and gained the support of President Tito, which helped him to become the first re-elected youth leader. After graduation, he became a lawyer before joining big politics. In 1980, he publicly challenged the autocratic ruler of Albania, Enver Hoxha, claiming that ethnic Albanians in Yugoslavia were better off than people in Albania and describing his rule as brutal and dictatorial.
Later on, Vllasi became a member of the central committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and became the leader of the League of Communists of Kosovo in 1986, and the president of Kosovo. Under Vllasi, the Albanian-led Party took a more assertive position towards the Serbian government, and could be expected to put up strong opposition to any moves to reassert Serbian authority over Kosovo. The autonomous province of Kosovo at the time had an equal vote in the federal presidency of Yugoslavia with the Yugoslav republics, and its own executive body, legislature, and judiciary.
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