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Bajram Rexhepi
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Bajram Rexhepi

Bajram Rexhepi (b. June 3, 1954 in Mitrovica e Kosovės) is a Kosovo politician and the current prime minister of the territory. He also heads one of the most important Kosovar political parties, the Parta demokratike e Kosovės (or Democratic Party of Kosovo).

He gratuated from the University of Prishtina and completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Zagreb in 1985. He spent most of his career working as a successful surgeon.

During the 1999 conflict, Rexhepi joined the Kosovo Liberation Army and spent three months serving as a field doctor. In the November 2001 general election in Kosovo, Rexhepi's PDK won 25.7 percent of the votes, slightly less than Ibrahim Rugova's Democratic League of Kosovo, and Rexhepi was appointed prime minister by the Qeveria (parliament) of Kosovo on March 4, 2002.

Rexhepi is considered a moderate politician, and he claimed one of his most important goals would be to "to enhance ethnic tolerance and reconciliation". Curiously, a Prishtina weekly magazine awarded him the "hairstyle of the year" award twice in a row.